@pratik I can’t not self-host any more. I just love the freedom of experimentation I get within the constraints of the WP ecosystem. Everything is setup – storage, media, API. I get to muck around with plugins, themes, whatever else based on my itch.

Yes, this kind of nonsense takes away time. But it’s all learning – I’ve now set the MySQL logs to 3 days instead of the default 30, so that’ll help clear the cruft.