It’s quite easy to use once you get the hang of it. In most situations, it’s the prefered option because you can just have your docker container, choose where relevant files are allowing you to properly isolate your applications. Or on single purpose servers, it makes deployment of applications and maintaining dependencies significantly easier.
At the very least, it’s a great tool to add to your toolbox to use as needed.

Hetzner storage server. like 24 dollars a month for 10tb

yeah thats what im taking away from this too… you dont just rm -rf shit in any application without some good ass verification from the user