Mine is deployed on home assistant.
I get an update once a month, I can ignore it. The update process is completely automatic and only takes a couple of minutes.
The UI includes a one button export of all your budget data so it's incredibly easy to back up your budget for peace of mind before an update.
They've simplified the use of it in a way. Effectively just a website but reactive so access on a phone is simplified.
On the graphs and reports. There's been a lot of work in the last two months, there was a limiting factor in the original choice in graphing library, but I've seen a Sankey graph, which seemed interesting. But more importantly there is a "custom reporting" which will probably not be as flexible as hand rolling your own Google sheet, but does give you a lot of control.
You can test out the demo budget :https://demo.actualbudget.org
And if you go into settings >advanced> experimental features, you can enable the in progress custom reports....