My WireGuard uses (either at home or at work) are very much mobile client to single network
Where Tailscale comes into its own is automatic managing of mesh networking (like an “sdwan” solution). The other thing it excels at is firewall busting - if you have a firewall (with or without address translation) which only allows outgoing traffic to be established (with UDP timeouts for session) then Tailscale also works in a similar way to turn/stun.
If I needed that capability then I’d be looking at Headscale. I don’t need it though.
Remember that this is hackernews, not slashdot. Where the community used to be far smaller and the technology far smaller it was quite normal for everyone to understand basic building blocks of ip addresses, use open source software, wear t-shirts threatening to replace people with a small shell script etc.
It’s not the same community, many people here have no real understanding of computer fundamentals, but instead have expertise in specific narrow areas. They also have little interest in things like free software, but do have an interest in building a new billion dollar company to sell to a behemoth.
> it excels at is firewall busting
Some would consider that an anti-feature. Firewalls are not to be busted. Nothing good lies at the extreme end of working around overly strict policies. Change the policy instead.
Thanks for the first 3 paragraphs, but big no to the last two. The vocal minority shapes communities.