I wouldn’t call it super easy. I have a disability that severely limits my cognitive capacity and endurance. Trying to piece it together myself would have maybe taken ~10% my daily cognitive capacity which is something I can’t afford.
So using my self hosted FOSS LLM (while ofc being sceptical to catch hallucinations) was the right move for me here.
Personally I do the 5-6 years and yeah it works great.
I’ll only upgrade once the phone stops working for what I need it for.