One thing to consider is that capability comes in many forms. Having multiple CPUs often means that you are transferring single-threaded performance to multi-threaded capacity. In commercial applications it’s often a no-brainer, but in homelabs you often benefit of the raw performance quite a lot.

RAM and storage is where it’s at.

I do. And I’m surprised this is a question. I find the installation process a loooot smoother compared to Debian.