Great, seems like a setup that works for you. I'm considering going to find one of these switches for my lab - it'll be like the 5th switch in my rack. I like playing with high performance networking, and your mikrotik isn't going to cut it for the stuff I like to experiment/play around with.

(Remember... this is a hobby where people persue their interests and experiment with things they want to know more about, not a proscribed set of exercises for just one path towards devops engineer).