The only reason I got a homeserver was jellyfin. I spend way too much on storage since then… make it stop… I also got an Nvidia shield for that reason. Couldve watched netflix, amazon and disney for years for that money, but I dont regret a second here and use it daily since. So yeah it did improve my daily life.

I am not sure if you are free for other solutions, but a good way to expose your homelab to the internet without issues is a zero trust concept which you can realise with cloudflare for example. There are some youtube videos on it. Pretty neat. Just as a thought, I cant tell if it would be the better solution.