[nickjj]

I don't think it's that bad?

I'm not in IT directly but as someone who mostly does infra / SRE / platform / ops type of stuff I'd much rather run certain types of tools internally.

For example, I'd rather pay $6 a month to self host WireGuard on a low powered server than pay 10-30x that for other SAAS apps in that space. Pop in Debian, lock the server down and turn on nightly unattended-upgrades and it's basically hands free maintenance.

I've had servers run for 8 years in this way where I spent a total of ~3 hours on assorted maintenance for the lifetime of the box.