Is Thailand good for expats, or does that depend entirely on how you earn your money?

The answer seems to split by income source more than by city. Remote earners, people employed locally and retirees describe such different countries that their advice is close to useless to each other, yet it all gets filed under the same question. The paperwork half is the part we keep current, because it changes and it matters: https://meetlocale.com/guides/dtv-thailand What has kept you here longer than you first planned, or what made you decide to leave?