Agreed. This is what I use for my bittorrent server.

You can absolutely self-host onion services and bypass the use of VPN, if you're serving web apps.

Entirely depends on your use case, though.

$2200 for glasses is insane regardless of what they can do. That's more than a powerful computer.

interesting. don't some controllers have weights inside them to simulate that "heavy" feel anyway? I seem to recall that weight being mostly psychological and not due to required components

I've switched back and forth between iOS and GrapheneOS over the years and I would agree that the keyboard is that hardest thing to get used to.

As much as people hate certain iOS features, the keyboard is excellent.