No that's actually relevant that he doesn't use it every minute of every day. His anecdote is for his use, and it informs his decision.

But I'll add another anecdote. I have had the same experience. I have never noticed any downtime from bitwarden but my 3 node kubernetes cluster that would host vaultwarden has gone down multiple times. Sometimes just for maintenance.

I self host a lot of stuff but my password vault is not one of them yet.

No, it’s well known that hosting your own stuff usually isn’t as reliable. Unless you’re a professional at hosting servers, it’s probably less safe and less reliable than the paid service. Hosting a server for years and years is hard!

It's not. The barrier for hosting highly available and low-resource services has significantly decreased over the years. As much as I don't like docker and docker-swarm, it has made it easy for an average developer to become an average sysadmin