>>todsac+(OP)
I really like the "VPN into home first" philosophy of remote access to my home IT. I was doing openvpn into my ddwrt router fortunately years, and now it's wireguard into openwrt. It's quite easy for me to vpn in first and then do whatever: check security cams, control house via home assistant, print stuff, access my zfs shared drive, run big scientific simulations or whatever on big computer, etc. The router VPN endpoint is open to attack but I think it's a relatively small attack surface.