Can I ask you if you consider that AI changes anything about that? Since I'm embarking on the same boat, my dream is a team of AI which supports and ensures business continuity while Im on vacation or "OOO" otherwise.
But it certainly has helped me gain velocity working alone. My business is very hands off after ten years of automating most things and cleaning up the hot paths. Things break, but usually due to external factors that have nothing to do with me. A few support emails and hands-off monitoring is hardly a deal-breaker for me on vacation. I'm not entirely sure why zero-effort is a goal, when you can genuinely attain a 5-hour work week today.
AI is really just a tool and there's a lot of incremental room between "helpful" and "totally autonomous". This calculus could all change one day, but it's not a personal desire of mine.