@ity to be clear, neither hosting an atproto PDS or activitypub instance are particularly easy; the process of even obtaining a server to run on is already beyond what most users could understand without a great deal of training (most of my circles are very technical nerds, at least compared to most people out in the real world)
my argument was simple that an activitypub instance is comparatively harder to spin up than an atproto PDS, which ultimately demands far less from you once set up.