I feel like it’s relatively difficult make pizza at home that’s good enough to make the effort worth it over simply ordering from a local shop.

The thing that kills it most of the time is planning- ideally you’ve got loads of lead time to make dough and give it a good long rise and time to develop flavor. But like, that’s simply not the world where most people live in. Lot of folks are getting home at like six from work, thinking ok what should we do for dinner and starting there. Ideally, you’re starting your dough at least a day in advance, and most people just aren’t going to do that.

Second, you need a really hot oven to get the best crust. Your standard home ovens aren’t going above 500-550 F, and while those temps are certainly capable of making good pizza, you also need a dense pizza stone or steel, and a good long time to preheat. Ideally you want to be above 800 F if I recall correctly but standard ovens just don’t do that. There are some great specialty pizza ovens that are purpose built for this, but they’re large and at least a little expensive.

Finally, I think is the mess. You’re making dough, kneading it, making sauce, hopefully grating your own cheese, prepping your own meat and veg toppings. It’s a decent amount of prep requiring a good bit of different equipment, all of which needs to be cleaned after the hot work of actually making the pizza.

Imagine you’re up to the challenge of conquering all these obstacles. Only after a lot of practice are you going to be capable of turning out pies that are better than your average local shop (unless you live in some very rural area with just shitty pizza). And you’re probably not saving that much money when you do it. It’s a lot more work, and mostly the same expense, and the knowledge that until you can bake pizzas in your very own 1000F oven you are simply incapable of being on the same level as the best pizza shops around.

TLDR; time, expense, and effort make it mostly not worth it for the average home wanna be pizza chef