100% this. I was bored and felt like setting money on fire a week ago, and figured I should grab a Series X finally. Went and looked through exclusives and, woof.
I run UnRAID myself as well. I don't need raw performance, just stupid amounts of storage for my data hoard, and being able to slap in whatever disk has the best $:gb whenever I need to expand has been such a nice change.
I do have a SSD pool to run my containers and separate one for drive caching as well.
With the right cup I prefer it that way. To be honest I eat cereal dry 99% of the time anyway and a pint glass is perfect for pouring the sugary oats into my mouth hole.
Hadn't heard of it, seems like it's similar to Unraid, but parity has to be manually syncd whereas UnRAID syncs constantly?