That's a command or two every week or two. I was not exaggerating when I said my house plants require more maintenance than that.

Running a server has been a non-issue for years for me.

It's second nature for those of us who have been doing it since the 90s. It's incredible that it's apparently becoming a lost art.

Indeed. Kind of reminds me of that sayin' about how "the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was to convince the world he didn't exist ..."

Sometimes I think it is a great trick some big players are pulling off, in convincing the world to subsidize their infrastructure costs (and more than that) by using their resources because it is "simpler" or more effective or alternatives are hard, etc ...

... to where the ability to competently setup and maintain those services will vanish, in due time. (Which, of course would only help to consolidate those -already- running such systems ...)

It's really not that bad. Most of the investment is early on, after that servers just run. I use unattended updates to keep patches coming in while I'm doing other stuff. Updating from a Debian stable repo won't break your stuff.