How difficult is it to mount and balance a tire at home?
Nothing worth doing is ever easy. And anything worth doing is worth doing well. Mounting and balancing your own tires is labor intensive. But with the correct tools can be done by any but the dangerously inept. Of the two type of tires involved, each has it’s problems. Tube-type tires has the problem of pinched inner tubes. With tubeless tires the problem is that in order for the tire to seal tightly against the rim it must have a special bead seated just so and of necessity that bead is very strong and considerably smaller than the outside diameter of the rim.
