> What am I missing? Why bother with managed switches at home?

I have managed switches now. Can be useful for link aggregation. I also use vlans, so I can have redundant nat gateways in different locations, without having to wire up a separate 'public net' lan... I could just put them in the same location, but I get a tiny amount of disaster resiliance this way. Vlans are also handy so I can do private and public on the same port and not need more nics; but maybe my setup doesn't need to be so esoteric that I want a separate port for host networking and for the nat gateway running in a jail (or maybe I could get srv-io to work somehow)

It's also handy to be able to check link status without having to go to where the switch is.