Depends on your use-cases.

If it's just to play around with small amounts in the zapping ecosystem infrequently then custodial/trustodial mobile node wallets are a relatively safe and easy way to get your feet wet.

If you want to establish a revenue stream of any kind, or service your friends/family/various apps, and learn, then you'll want to take ownership and run a proper always-online setup (not a mobile node)

I second @DarthCoin's guides for diving in to your options

Why not both with different levels of amounts and using the custodial ones as decoys? I wrote several guides about these scenarios:

Also you do not have to run a public node just for your own personal use (paying / receiving over LN), you can use perfectly fine a private node: https://darth-coin.github.io/nodes/private-ln-nodes-en.html

Coinos.io is the best custodial wallet.

Just dont keep too much in it.

Hold most of your savings in cold storage L1, some in hot wallet L1 for liquidity and some in Coinos.io LN for spending.

If you have the time, skill and inclination go further and run LN node- but I don't have.

You have have the will, capability and resources run your own node. Because you will learn new things, skill that in 5-10 years may be very required in small-mid companies. I am of the opinion that is always good to learn and run things like that if you can, have the time and etc.

I say run your own. Node in a box makes it extremely easy

Use custodial while you learn to run own node, then run own node

Can keep using custodial for small amounts, usually have better payment reliability due to bigger channels amd more connectivity