Once I figured out how LN is ought to work, I just configured the node to be able to route transactions so that other nodes have incentives to open channels as well. Bunch of swaps at LightningNetwork+, few liquidity purchases at Magma from Amboss and a few channels to big LSPs made it not necessary to manage anything more frequently than once a month. Budget is what hard in my case - I can't just open many 1+ million sats channels