If you can get your hands on one, a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W with the official Pi Camera Module 3 is a great solution but it lacks the ESPHome integration.
Welcome to the money pit of speciality coffee! Thats a great setup.
Good thinking. Just done that.
The Pi 2 only supports 32 bit operating systems while the Pi 3 and newer support 64 bit (aarch64) operating systems which is likely why they’ve separated the images.
I’ll just leave this here…
I’ve got a few