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Your approach is a bit scatter brain Raymo. "I'm quite happy to do
my feeble best to take my DSLR to it's limits". And yet "it's much more difficult for me to climb the learning curve".
From hard experience, for a given result, DSLR "to the limits" imaging requires a FAR steeper learning curve and expertise than a OSC or mono astro cam.
Even with a mono astro cam with filters, the difference in basic processing before PS between OSC, DSLR and mono astro cam is trivial. Even free software automates these steps with little difference in learning curve.
To my mind how much you spend on astrophogtograhpy gets down to two factors:
1/ Expectations
2/ How much you value your time in producing a given result.
If you have no money, low expectations, or take pride in getting the max out of the min with infinite effort, expertise and available time then anything goes. That all takes a rare mind set most dont possess. Advice to beginners to incrementally upgrade with skill is a very, very expensive con.
Assuming they will actually persevere with Astrophotograhpy that is, granted.
For the rest of us, its a balance. Its a direct inverse correlation, less money, means vastly more time and learning curve for a given result, fine if you are retired and willing to learn, potentially fatal if not, nothing worse than crap output to destroy incentive.
So, excellent DSLR imaging requires serious imaging time, learning curves (eg processing) and skill, far more than with astrocams for an equivalent result.
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