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The setup you're considering is brilliant. It's only drawback is the expense. I do have some occasional niggles with Roon running on an NUC but I've also got quite a bit going on on my network.
I've been using it for a few years and it does everything you've realised it does and more. It's great for finding related music and the reviews and metadata are extensive.
Your NAS may be able to run the Roon core too. Apparently it's a a bit slow on larger libraries running on a NAS but a large library in Roon terms is huge, I would guess that some Roon users have more hours in music in their libraries than they have hours left on earth.
I ran a little test for a year with Tidal and Qobuz side by side. Qobuz had 3 titles I added to my library that couldn't be found on Tidal after a year of searching. With Qobuz you can also buy digital music if that's your thing. I settled on Tidal because they provide slightly higher quality files as their baseline. If I wasn't using a decent size library to start with I might have gone with Qobuz.
Qobuz only albums were all electronica, I'm guessing Tidal can't get one or 2 electronic labels to play ball.