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I ended up doing both!
I setup Plex on my home PC for my phone and got a DAP too.
I went for the Calyx M, which is quite old now and has no wifi, nor Bluetooth, is quite slow, fairly big and only has single ended output, but it’s a full touchscreen with a Class A amp (so awful battery life) which sounds wonderful.
neu
I too have a reasonably large library of lossless music and am not really that into streaming, though I accept it does have its place.
My solution for almost a decade now has been a NAS at home that serves my music to my phone/work computer over the internet using Plex. Plex essentially creates a private streaming service that can adjust the bitrate of the stream depending on whether you’re connecting over LAN, WiFi or mobile data. Each device has its own DAC with the quality Of the DAC dependent on use.
You could certainly do this for £400 and a bit of time invested, especially if you used a micro PC with some storage rather than a NAS. If your files are already on an internet connected PC / Mac then you could do it for free or the cost of a plex licence / subscription. Plex does have limitations though, for example it won’t support MQA.
Sorry, I know this doesn’t answer your question but it does give you an alternative option :)