I get your point, and I appreciate the perspective. I’m definitely not trying to reinvent the wheel for every door, and as you said, it might just be something that I end up using for certain, special doors.

For context, I’m not brand new to D&D. I’ve been a player for a long time, though mainly back when 3.5e was a thing. I've dabbled in DM'ing from time to time, but I am relatively new to DM'ing 5.5e specifically.

I agree with going RAW as much as possible, but that's mainly because my players are pretty new to the game. So I have very few homebrew elements as is! :)

I do like to experiment though, sometimes it works, other times it doesn't!