I at least maintain administrative control while using free resources. I looked at the completely self hosted route a long time ago and didn’t want to deal with that. Fast forward to today and I’m dealing with a friend who has the polar opposite. Now their mental faculties are reduced and they lost devices. Couple this with not paying previous management entities and it’s a digital lock out. Recovering from this is a nightmare and I’m operating blind. For a normie this would be impossible.