Older geek here. I started with Plex and torrent. Added sonarr. Researched and switched to jellyfin. Learned about arr stack. Moved services to docker.
It's now super low maintenance. If I need to update a service, I just kill and recreate it. I have a second machine for media storage.
I think I spent a weekend building the arrstack and I have a few days total working on the home made NAS.