I hate SMB, but the real problem, from my perspective, is that SMB is the only option if you want everything to be able to talk to your share. With NFS or SSHFS

I hate SMB, but the real problem, from my perspective, is that SMB is the only option if you want everything to be able to talk to your share. With NFS or SSHFS or anything else, you're cutting out a bunch client devices & software. Like FAT32 in the early days of USB drives, you use it because everything speaks it, not because it's the best thing around. FWIW the sanest way I've found to configure SMB shares on any OS is Docker on Linux. Concise for common use-cases, rock solid, config won't change out from under you for unclear reasons. I think an underrated benefit of Docker is that it strongly encourages cutting the bullshit out of configuration and getting straight to the point, for what most people want to do with the image. The config lines are gibberish, but at least they're very short gibberish. IIRC one option line per user, one option line per share (maybe one other per share to map the real directory to the container? Can't recall for sure), everything for each of them smushed together on that one line. No "what kind of user is meant here, again, since there are two kinds?" garbage, no "all three of these options look relevant, but which one is actually being applied in this particular case?" or "which section does this option go in?" that I recall from the hell of trying to configure Samba to do very normal, boring things over the years. 90% of the time all I want is "anonymous read, this username and password for writes, share directories x, y, and z" which is so normal a thing to want to do with it that the config shouldn't occupy much more space than it took to write that out—and, indeed, using the Docker image, it doesn't, and you don't have to deal with outside-the-config user state because the image takes care of that for you, so the config is an easily portable, tiny text file that depends on nothing else but the existence of the directories you're telling it to mount & share, unlike a normal samba config file.