I agree with a lot of the folks here. I don’t think it’s gate-kept. It’s just part of self hosting. I have a YouTube channel dedicated to teaching people about self josting, open source, and how to get it all running. There are great projects out there that provide incredibly powerful UIs, TrueNAS, OpenMediaVault, Unraid, Proxmox, NextCloud, HomeAssistant, NetBird, Pangolin, NGinX Proxy Manager, Portainer, and so many more. All designed to make self hosting easier and safer. I know 8 or 10 other creators who also do self hosting and how to’s. It does require learning, time, and dedication. As does anything worth while.