I use it daily for travel by bike or foot (kombined with BRouter). And its awsome!

Experiance by car is a bit mixed tho. (EU-Germany)

In terms if logging: sys journal does the job for me …

I do run prometheus + grafana for some services but that is mostly for some fancy looking graphics nothing really usefull.

I would recomend you to monitor updates of you apps so you are well informed when und what to update (i just have subsribed to all the diffrent release git rss feeds)

Nothing realy exept licencing

Maybe consider using forgejo (gitea fork used by codeberg)

And i do think, some changes would be needed but nothing big, also it wouldnt ne activated by default.