It's a little bit of an 'upfront' cost... But start9 and umbrel are nodes in a box, are reasonably priced in my opinion, and add a huge amount of usability to bitcoin in general.

You can run a node on one, open your own lightning channels, do coinjoins, host your own media, have your own 'blockchain' explorer, plus some social media stuff if you're interested in that - it's basically a packaged deal.