yes you are right, I almost forgot how much time I sunk in learning it all at the start. This year I had disk failures and was offline for almost one week. Yeah being uber tech really helps. Hoping in the future things get easier. Home Assistant now sells self contained hardware boxes. This is for home automation and a more general audience. It's almost plug n play. It too is fairly complex but moving in the right direction. Maybe a more simple Layer 3 on top of lightning could be the way.