>And even if everything is secure right now, you cannot guarantee this stays the case in the future. By using the "tailscale ecosystem" you are locking yourself into a provider that can change the ecosystem (clients, services, servers) or put things behind a paywalls anytime.

I can't (and refuse) to live my lie by "what ifs." If they do any of those things, it's easy enough to pivot to the 3 or 4 other providers our there, like ZeroTier, who offer the same thing.

My hope is if they do, the FOSS community will have gotten their act together and built a capable replacement, which is usually the case.