Running your own VPS is not morally superior. It is just one trade-off. If you want outcomes instead of infrastructure chores, there is another way.
The sticker price of a server is not the real price. The real price is your time: setup, patching, debugging, recovering from drift, and explaining to yourself why a thing that worked yesterday is weird today.
If you love tinkering and want full control, self-hosting is still valid. But if you mainly want a dependable personal AI assistant in Telegram, hosted is usually the less stupid choice.
ClawHatch skips the VPS wrangling, Telegram bot setup, updates, backups, and first-message debugging. If you'd rather use OpenClaw than babysit it, that's the point.