I was reading a homelab discussion about NUTs (Network UPS Tools) that left me scratching my head and wondering "…why? Is complexity for complexities sake part of homelabs? Isn’t this a huge overkill for one machine? Just…use a UPS? "

I think it's like anything else people do. Some are quite satisfied at a moderately basic level. Others tho, implement K8 clusters, etc, a complexity level I have no interest in. Take golf for example. I used to play quite regularly. I had a raggedy old bag and some beginner level clubs I bought third hand. My buddy had every golf gadget you could possibly imagine. Thousands of dollars to whack a ball around a course and into a hole, on an amateur level. I'm thinking, 'Dude, this isn't the Masters Tournament at the Augusta National. We're just whacking balls into holes and having a few beers on the weekend' . But, every time we got together, he just had to show me his new gadget that cost him hundreds of dollars and added even more complexity to the game.