I've recently rebuilt my homelab. It is now a Proxmox cluster with Ceph distributed storage, all running on 3 Intel NUCs. I wish NUCs had SFP+ because the Ceph cluster network would definitely benefit from 10 Gbps. Instead, each NUC has three inexpensive USB3 2.5GbE adapters that work fine.
OP, try to avoid 10GBASE-T if possible. SFP+ might be more cost-effective on the used market, and it's also more energy-efficient.