Thanks for the detailed feedback. I think I am also leaning towards Opnsense right now. I think for a relative newbie like me, that would be better.
I know that I can build and host everything on my own on a pure Linux distro, but I would like to have some life left at the end of the day and not spend days of building testing and debugging network related problems.
By the way another user suggested that with VyOS you can build an LTS target yourself and that they provide build instructions.









That's why you should buy physical disks. In the worst case you can re-sell them to someone else.