I couldn't get Tailscale to work on my network for whatever reason so I just stuck to Tor on Umbrel anyway. I don't mind a few seconds extra latency.

Also, the Tailscale VPN that comes with Umbrel is terrible for privacy and security. You're letting a service operated by a company access your LAN, after already letting it into your Google account to login.

Why? It's very easy to setup Wireguard locally without a centralised middleman.

I imagine Start9 wants to avoid that shitty OPSEC approach and is working on a stable implementation of Wireguard for their OS. That's the right move.