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Agreed. Once you found your solution in your pi system design, all things should fall into play seemlessly and you have way more flexibility than just buying a standalone unit...That just means you didn't finish developing your ideal Pi solution ;-) All of those seem easily fixed, but it probably comes down to "easy if you know how" and whether it's something you want to put the time and effort into. For me the "I could fix it if I could be bothered" element makes the imperfections less frustrating than when they're in something I've just bought, especially if it's something expensive.
I don't use any standalone streamer units.
For me, the RPI5 never needs to be turned off. I vnc in to set in Hqplayer, which room/system it will stream to, each system has its own room convolution settings loaded up automatically when I choose that room. Say I want to play music in my main system, I will just turn on the amp there and turn it off at the end of the session. At the end of the day I want to play music in the bedroom through the night, i will just VNC in my RPI5, switch profile to bedroom in Hqplayer, turn on the amp in the bedroom and turn it off in the morning. All systems are controlled by my iphone jplay iOS upnp app for Qobuz and local digital library streaming. Its pretty painless I would say.