shujert - Nice photos! Great look and feel from the Portra.
I was pretty much ready to sell my film cameras because getting the film developed was costly and time-consuming. Then I decided to try home developing, which completely changed the game for me.
I had only planned to do B/W, and that is very easy, particularly with the "FF No. 1 Monobath" developer I use. More recently, I decided to try home-developing color, and that is also not very difficult. The "Arista Rapid E-6" kit from Film Photography Project (there's also a kit for C-41) uses 3 solutions rather than 6, and only needs to be kept at around 100ºF, which is easy to do in a kitchen sink filled with 100º water. I haven't been super crazy about getting the temp exactly right, and have had no issues.
See my home-developed Provia 100 post on this page and a few pages back. Not too shabby!