[tristor]

> Genuinely curious: is Tailscale actually providing any values to this use case beyond what you get from a raw Wiregaurd exit node with port forwarding instead of Tailscale's NAT traversal?

Yes, but I guess it depends on how much of an adoption barrier/pain you want to deal with. Tailscale's control plane is dead simple and they ship apps on basically every platform so its easy to onboard mobile devices in addition to anything else. I'm a literal former network engineer with over two decades of experience, and I tried Tailscale randomly one of the first few times it popped on HN and stuck with it precisely because of how easy it was and how trivial it was to verify the security of my tunnels. Doing this manually is definitely possible on devices you control, but it's not a fun time, and Tailscale is dead simple.