Just wait … everyone has that episodes where you don’t want to tinker around… mine was off for 6 months and recently I got back at it. So rebuilt everything with automation in focus , spinning / stopping VMs via email , every dhcp lease gets an A record on my DNS server and such jazz … and lastly implemented Authentik so that every service uses oauth where possible.
Just wait a little … because when you want to start over and sell everything , you’ll need to buy stuff again
To be fair , they design and manufacture the case in canada … so it makes sense that it’ll be a little more expensive than when you get the labor done in china
And yeah when you compare it to synology , i guess you still get more bang for the buck … but YMMV