I'm at the same stage, the barrier to entry for getting my own lightning node setup is ridiculous, and I consider myself pretty tech savvy. There needs to be a LOT of improvement to make this easy for the masses. 

 Yup. 

I also make my life way harder that it has to be by trying to muddle through learning proxmox layered on top of startOS on top of TOR... 😅  

 Sounds it. One thing I need to learn and figure out is how to access the node from a distance as I do travel a bit