I'm not against it, I just happened to also need lots of nginx functionality...but a cursory glance does suggest YARP provides at least most of what I need.

Can you explain this a bit? I'm trying to figure out what the appeal is of YARP, so far the only thing that makes sense is the load balancing.

The big appeal for me is that with YARP you are treating your proxy as code that you write yourself.

YARP gives you all of the building blocks you need to build a simple proxy just as easily as a highly complex one.