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I think you could take this arbitrarily far. Why buy a motherboard when building a computer when you should design the PCB yourself? Why go with a pre-existing processor? You should design the architecture from scratch. Why aren't you mining your own silicon and growing your own ingots? You're not a real nerd unless you have your own chip fab.
Some people get into self hosting because they want their data to be their data. They don't care about the particulars, they just want that peace of mind. Others get into it because they're already in a tech or tech-adjacent field and want to improve their skills. Some, such as myself, fall somewhere in the middle. I work in IT and am sometimes in the mood to tinker, but sometimes I just want it to work without much fuss.
This can be said about literally anything. And it's a "slippery slope fallacy" to use as an argument.
There are "appropriate levels of understanding" I'm advocating for. I'm not even saying "don't use yunohost" - just understand what the components you're using do and how they interoperate.
These people are the worst. What they want is fine - but the idea that you don't need to worry about the particulars is ridiculous.