NextDNS is advertised as Cloudflare + Pi-Hole. And I think this is correct.

Something wrong with the Pi-Hole, I have to sit down (likely at home), and do it -- even to add/edit something. NextDNS is much simpler, I can set up from anywhere and I can even ask my wife to fix herself stuffs.

Must be just personal but these days, I'm not too keen on doing everything myself the way I want. I'm learning to say NO to a lot of things.

Not NextDNS, my question/comment was regarding the parent comment's mention of Adguard.

It's way faster in terms of UI atleast. It boots up almost instantly, configuration is pretty simple and the UI is better IMO.

What boots up almost instantly? It's supported on quite a few OSes [0], not to mention the underlying hardware. I found AdGuard's (Home) UI to be a bit more polished but it feels like it has feature parity with PiHole 5 otherwise. I tried both but stuck with PiHole since the community around it seemed more developed.

[0] https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome/wiki/Getting-Star...

PiHole 5 introduced the same features but there used to be a difference in the past.