I have been running a selfhosted gitea instance for many years. However since Gitea Limited as a per profit organization have different objectives than Forgejo and Gitea Source Contributors I will rather not recommend it for selfhosting. Gitea Limited still great for businesses that need access to official support.

There is any particular reason to deploy a new gitea instance instead of forgejo in 2025?

Webserial is only reason I see to install Chrome. For everything else Firefox works great.