When my bosses want to know why a quote for a device like a NAS is thousands and thousands of dollars instead of hundreds of dollars I use examples like this.

Running consumer gear, especially public facing internet consumer gear is just asking for trouble.

TrueNAS/FreeNAS whatever it’s called these days - a real OS with real vendor and community support keeping the project alive and up to date is just necessary.

Buying these consumer devices that are set and forget with limited or zero firmware updates is BAD. Not to mention the code quality and unknown closed source backdoors