Thanks for the feedback and words, I appreciate that a lot! 
I am totally with you there and that's also to goal and a reason why we have built Alby Hub. 

Check it out on Git Hub. While we try to make things easy you can use it in the level of which you're comfortable with. 

In that thread there are a few misconceptions about Alby Hub it seems. 

Would be happy to show you more and learn more of what you would like to see or where we can improve. 
Did you already try to run it on your own machine? home server or something?