100g in the mountains? Where is this mythical place?

no

This is like asking why do you cook your own food at home.

I self host because I know what I am getting, I can control the price I want to pay, and I don’t really need to involve other people in my life.

next up… docker containers start reporting user data

Never buy into a platform, they tend to waste a lot of my time on changing things to upgrade versions that have no point except to change the whole platform, and the things you like to use get deprecated. Or they never get to where you want to be. Your vision is not the maintainers vision. Learn to roll your own…everything.