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No idea how it compares to Ring, but my wife is a severe technophobe and she had no issues or complaints with Protect. We only have one doorbell + one camera connected to a CloudKey+ though, so your mileage may vary.
Motion detection works reasonably well as far as I can tell, with person, vehicle and animal detection too.
Regarding the doorbell, one option you have is to try finding a second-hand Unifi G4 Doorbell (non-pro). It can be wired with only the two wires you already have. Just make sure you have relatively good 5GHz WiFi reception near your front door, because the 2.4GHz antennas on this model are notably bad.
Do you have issues with the doorbell rebooting when the button is pressed and it's cold outside?
No, but I'm in the UK, so the lowest temp this doorbell has ever experienced here is around -8°C. Depending on where in the world you are, that might not even register as "cold". Also, I've wired it with the official 16V power supply included in the box and the "chime adapter" dongle thingy, which turned out to be really important for it to function properly.