Fair, but I guess we could agree that a lot of people on this community are not exactly matching your “most people” bin. Having alternatives is always a good idea. And taken that some people run HA on pretty exotic hardware, there is a chance that tailscale doesn’t work with it (albeit I agree they do a pretty good job in supporting as much platforms and distros as possible). Talking about alternatives… There is netbird as well ;)

OK, you bet me, it took me 15 min to setup WireGuard on my opnsense-based router and install it on my phone and my laptop. Now I can access my entire network from everywhere, including full access to HA.

Not saying tailscale is bad but for me WireGuard was sufficient easy…