Weekly discussion: weekend plans that changed my mind [v5]

I want to write something more comprehensive about this later but starting with a quick post to gather thoughts. The trade-offs here are not obvious to me and I keep flip-flopping. There is a lot of conflicting advice online and most of it is from 2019.

I want to write something more comprehensive about this later but starting with a quick post to gather thoughts. Quick context: I am relatively new to this and trying to find my footing.

Posting this here because the relevant subreddit has gotten too noisy lately. I tried three different approaches and none of them felt quite right.