[zouhair]

Your conclusion is wrong, you just found out homelabs is not a hobby for you. People have way more expensive and time consuming hobbies.

[m0xte]

My conclusion is that my home lab was a learning exercise that comes to an end and that having physical hardware was actually detrimental to it.

I still have a home lab. It's just virtualized.

[zouhair]

Whatever works for you, just don't generalize it.

[znpy]

Maybe a bit too direct, but I 100% agree with this comment.

[msh]

Well, I guess if you are serious about a home lab you need both your normal network and a seperate homelab. I like tinkering with my homelab but I need not to depend on it for my work or internet access.

[rfoo]

What if your true Internet access depends on it? Providing un-GFWed Internet access for all my devices is so much easier with the networking gears which happens to be in my homelab setup.