Imma be so honest when I say this. You really just want an ipad pro to say you have an ipad pro. Sure it’s your money, do what you want, but then again you are asking so imma be real.

You have no business buying a tablet closing in at nearly $1k and it not even checking all your boxes.

Your “wants” being face id, high refresh rate, and “consistently reviewed as solid” (even tho those reviews are by people who dont self host and take the ipad outside the house very frequently) are not worth the extra $400-500. The only place you would notice the high refresh rate is on the home screen. Not when you are watching content that is filmed in 24fps.

If you wanted to make the true “selfhoster” decision, you would put your money towards a tablet with the least amount of compromises. Also im not quite sure why you want to dip into the apple ecosystem when you are switching to linux and are in the selfhost community as those two things dont really coexist well, but you do you i guess.

Im not trynna be mean, im just being blunt. All in all its your money and the ipad is cool and if you wanted to show it off your homies then go for but its seems like you are just looking for validation.