You really don’t need to

Why don’t you start a community called home networking

Not really unless you want a potato from 2008

I think we need more choice. The problem is modern hardware forces proprietary blobs

I just like config files I guess

I like wireguard because it doesn’t have a lot of overhead

I personally forward all my stuff via a wireguard tunnel setup in linode. However, I would strongly advise against exposing services to the internet.