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Just an alternate perspective, but we have a Roborock S7 robotic vacuum and we absolutely love it. We started using it in Jan 2023 and it's been working well since. We run it twice a week so we always stay on-top of vacuuming and it does a great job in our house with wood floors with an area rug.
When we want to run the vacuum upstairs, we carry it up, put it in a specific place and hit the "on" button and it does a good job there as well, but we only vacuum upstairs occasionally. When it's through, we carry it back downstairs and put it on the charger.
But it's not completely "set and forget". We do have some very small rugs (think in front of your door or maybe in front of the bathroom mirror) that we shake out (onto the floor) and get off the floor before the vacuum runs and we have a few other things (like bar stools) that we move away from the counter to give the vacuum more room. Sort of a "pre and post vacuum process" to help ensure it can get into some tighter spaces.
And we have to clean the vacuum and it's docking station regularly (similar to cleaning out the bag in a standard vacuum). But that's about it. Moving that stuff takes maybe 3 minutes?
We have a dog and a cat, we have a litter box that gets litter scattered around it, and the robot seems to handle it just fine.
I think the tradeoff is this: while you do have to move some stuff to help the vacuum get into some tighter spaces (which I guess you'd have to do with a manual vacuum anyways as well), that takes just a few minutes and you can run your vacuum regularly several times per week to just keep up with the dog hair.
Edit: One more concern is that, unlike a regular vacuum, the robot vacuums share a lot of data with their parent company so if that's a concern, then it's not a good choice! But if you use Facebook or Instagram, maybe you don't care?
We have a 2700 SQ FT house (250 m^2^) if that helps.