I have also re-started running an LN node in Jan 2025(I experimented with it a couple of years back and got fed up with channel management), and it is quite a bit of work as you need to rebalance the channels to receive sats even for private channels. Setting up a channel with Stacker News is straightforward, but you can only send sats through that. If you want to receive them, you need to rebalance the channels by a loop-out facilitated by Lightning Terminal or by pushing out Sats using ThunderHub(less preferred option). I cannot do this on Alby Hub. This is my understanding; if there is a simpler way to do that, please let me know. In summary, I would say the amount of work to maintain private channels is tens of hours of investment in the initial stages, but once set up, it should be an hour or two every quarter or six months, depending on how much you deplete the sats in your channels. This is assuming your node doesn't crash, haha