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I’m using the machine also as a server, so it replaces 2 existing devices. In terms of power consumption, it’s likely only a small increase, if at all.

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My only rub with that is - shouldn't the router be only a router from a security perspective? Definitely combining servers for home use does make sense though.

Ideally yes. But with the resources needed for 25 Gbps, not using one machine for multiple purposes seems wasteful. The server only stores publically available data, though, so not a big deal from a security perspective.

What do you mean by resources required? expansion ports on the mb?

Yeah running your nas-bittorrent/firewall-router on the same OS is clearly not something I would do, especially that now you can use somrthing like proxmox for example and virtualize your pfsense/opnsense instance.

I am using a home server with the same CPU and I am using it for SQL, storage server and virtualization. In order to do that I changed RAM to 32GB DIMMs, 64GB in total was not enough and the CPU works just fine with 32GB DIMMS. The platform is quite limited by the number of available PCIe lanes, but without moving up to Threadripper (a lot more expensive) there is no better option, Intel is in the same place or worse. The good thing with Intel is that you can use a CPU with integrated graphics and save the PCIe lanes for the graphics card.

My previous build (Ryzen 2700, 65W) had a great feature until it was gone with a BIOS update: after installing everything it worked with the graphics card removed. As I always connected only remotely, it was not a problem but a benefit. You can try and see what happens.

Also, the user can use his freedom to build and do whatever wished for. This tone of you shouldn't do this because some COTS is available sounds very commercially driven. People have the power to create another Google, we are not powerless.

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