This is way too accurate. With a buddy I even have what our wifes call playdates, where we are messing around with proxmox, containers and linux distros. We both have some old poweredge servers, laptops, raspberry pies and old phones to mess around with. Nothing useful has come out of that so far, although we're preparing a lemmy and mastodon instance, so we're getting there.
For a while I was doing the work from home thing, and I found it hilarious that I'd be sitting in the same chair and it'd be like "CLOSE THE LAPTOP OF WORK! OPEN THE LAPTOP OF PLAY!"
I'd expect the work servers to be better because I can't afford to spend thousands per server, but maybe I'm just spoiled with regards to work hardware.
It's not about the server being strong or weak. Good server is the one you associate with your own projects and hobby, bad server is the one you associate with work and oblications :-)
The worst thing is when everything is airgapped. Tasks that take 5 minutes at home end up taking a week because there's always something not being available or whatsoever.
The magic of the bad server is they have an R&D budget plus ops team so some waste while testing is covered, you tend to pay for mistakes on the good (home) server :P
Plus getting feedback from a good team beats a rubber duck XD