I don't why you think the price is crazy, regular ETH/1080TI rigs make 10-16$ day, this costs 2$ 30 days. It's about 0.4-0.6% of that month earning to get instant notifications, remote console, bulk config updates and more.
I really don't see how the price is high for that.
For one or two rig's maybe not big deal but it's 192$ per year if you have 10 rigs and 384$ for 20 rigs and so on. Numbers become big when you have big farm. At some point you have to decide between revenue from one rig or nice tool.
Doesn't matter the number of rig you have, the ratio will stay the same.
What is 384$ on 100k revenu?
384$ is 384$ no matter on revenue.
I don't want blame you, just want to show what can make sense.