I think this is a cool way to relate to technology. Is there a word for technology that people enjoy because it's broken all the time?
I have a good friend who has been in management for twenty years, and he maintains a complicated home network like he was head of IT for a circa-2000 small business. Mail server, printer server, FTP, etc., mostly bare metal with a couple of VMs for things like a Windows domain controller. The most modern thing he has is a media server so he can buy music and movies on physical media.
It takes a moderate amount of tending, and once a year or so, something major breaks and he has to spend a weekend or two tinkering and fixing things, solving a complicated puzzle of software and hardware compatibility. I think it's a therapeutic outlet for him. If you talk to him, he'll give you complicated reasons why the whole thing is extremely practical, but nothing that would justify the dozens of hours per year he puts into it. I've probed for how he feels about it ("I bet it's nice to get hands-on every once in a while, eh?") and from his answers I'm pretty sure he has no awareness of it serving any emotional purpose for him. I bet it drives his wife crazy when she wants to watch a movie and he has to run into his office to tweak some configuration, but from my distance, I think it's pretty cool.
What I can't stand is the subset of people who keep trying to trick the rest of us into using their tinkerware, the "install Linux for your parents in 1999" crowd. When I bought a house seven years ago, I was really excited to set up some home automation, but after a couple of weekends of research I realized it was going to be a full-time hobby. I remember in particular being on Reddit and looking at the comment history of someone who had a pattern of saying "once you get it set up it's relatively pain-free." It was obvious from his history that it had been basically a second job for him for over a year. I decided to live in an unautomated home and invest my energy into other things, and I'm very glad I did. What drives people to lie about things like that to people who won't enjoy it?