Sure, but you mentioned meshtastic because of the larger network. but I'm reality nobody is using anything except longfast. In my area, long fast has 3 repeaters and I can connect to maybe 100 miles away within 2 hops .
Switching modes, there is some guy named Fred in the same town, and that's it. Lol
So at that point , you might as well use meshcore. Or in my case, reticulum