Is blu-ray best for hobbyists?
They are writable and readable by most modern standard drives.
The claims I generally see is 100 years for standard storage, 1000 years for archival storage.
Nowadays on Linux you can very easily mount LTO tapes like any other drive using LTFS, so you don’t have to become some hyper-expert with tar.
I had to “repair” the first one I bought, but that literally ended up being fixed by tightening a screw on the SAS connector. The second one I bought worked out of the box.