I do plan on getting away from the RPi, I don't have a PC that sits at home though so will look at other options.
Have to say it was the best move to run it as a VM on an old 2015 HP SFF PC (I bumped memory to 16GB) as it is faster and also don't need to worry about SD card wear.
That HP is now also my Plex Server and cloud clone server (OneDrive, GDrive, iCloud) - so it keeps a copy of everything (with it's own 2 week snapshot - just in case)
I snapshot my VM every few days (automated process) which get's uploaded to OneDrive and then downloaded on my other laptop (an even older 2010 spec i7 laptop)- in case I need to run from there if the main PC dies . The VM backup has saved me three times, already to recover from . I've had HASS updates bork the installation - and it's just been so easy to restore the VM again to 'roll-back' instead of trying to troubleshoot.
All these things run 24x7 unless like today, Eskom shares it's love with us.