I think that we put too many things into home assistant and it’s becoming the everything app. Personally, I prefer some level of separation. Actually having a separate dashboard, self hosted app for just a gadgetbridge would be nice and there is a potential that in the future it can aggregate from more apps than just the gadgetbridge. Just an example, I am currently using Endurain for my workouts. I use open tracks to record them and then I upload them to Endurain. I do this exactly because I want to have stats on the desktop somewhere and I do care more about workouts than any other stats, but if there were also my sleep stats and steps and stuff that would be really nice.

I have recently moved non-vm truenas to a new hardware and actually it was a breeze. I just created the backup, disconnected the drives, physically put them into the new server, install the truenas, restored the backup, and it was done. I understand that everyone has different preferences. I’m just saying that it’s easy to move truenas without it being the VM as well.

I can tell you that the best one man projects are those that they do first and foremost for themselves, because a/they enjoy it a lot and b/you see a lots of thought behind the project. So thats what i recommend, start by doing what you need and eventually the project will grow and maybe people will join…