I think making furniture functional like this is awesome! It's why my desk is the PC.
As for answering the original question, I can't say I'd have done much different, but this Beta 1.0 has been a bit underwhelming. I get it, they need to get the kinks out since it seems A LOT of people had issues installing, while I fortunately had none. My experience has be optimal. I did jump the gun on a couple of apps, which installed perfectly fine without problems through TrueNAS. However, I look forward to JellyFin app being implemented, I just don't have the motivation to figure it out. So I'll just wait and not watch my content.