

I use their wifi APs because they make them really easy to configure and manage. But the management interface stays locked in a vlan without access to the internets. Because I don’t trust their cloud affinity.
This also disqualifies their routers and firewalls for me. How can I trust a device which tries to phone home? So that area is covered by opnsense on a device with a sufficient amount of Ethernet ports.
Any device with a mass storage can act as a NAS - a single board computer + Linux + samba/ nfs/ scp/ sftp. I heard TrueNAS or OpenMediaVault are recommended as all in one solutions - I don’t know them.
I don’t get the resentment for yuno. In the end it is a hobby. You can have fun building everything from scratch. And you can have fun, using pre configured services.
What counts is that you get away from big corp.
Can’t say much about your tutorial though. Didn’t read it. I’m sorry. ;)