TLDR: Does not know how to setup VPN for remote access. His NAS needed constant maintenance and broke frequently (playing around too much?). Used Youtube as information source / to solve problems.

I don’t think everyone should self-host. This person was certainly in over their head.

Synology likes to pretend that it’s easy, but doing it right in the ways that make it actually superior to something like Google Drive, is not.

It would be nice if everyone could know someone, who does run one.

Why have a NAS per person, when you can have one per family, friend group, or workplace?

Sadly that will lead to some people relying on hardware that WILL fail in ways that means lost data. Tons of small scale users does mean a lot of people who won’t quite know what they should know about how to do it.

Totally agree with everything they said.
Disagree with the implied false dichotomy of NAS or Google Drive. There are other options. Proton drive is great for convenient file sharing.

Skill issue

What is NAS?