Year one I rebalanced and managed channels and fees. It was a full time job. I hated it as it felt like a job and I spent a lot of sats rebalancing. I spent a lot of sats. I don't know how much.

Year two I set fees to 0/0 and just let it fly. I routed A LOT, but every once in a while I had to change fees to help move liquidity around. I used to route 1-1.5 BTC a month most months . I made no sats in routing fees that year.

This year, year three I used Lightning Terminal to automatically manage all of my fees for me. I have some zero channel management and zero fee adjustments. I am very happy with this. This also just launched about a year ago and wasn't available previously. I route less per month, but I make a little bitcoin for my efforts. I feel this is the best model.