haha happy to hear that :) (I created Patrol) ((and then worked on Maestro at mobile.dev briefly))
I too think that for the vast majority of use cases, Maestro is the best solution. Fast and easy to write and run.
Also it's cool that it's open-source and has very strong community. I'd be skeptical to have all my tests stored in some SaaS that I can't even run locally (as some other solutions do)