Sure you don't need it, but you may _want_ it. Consider that some people really don't want to set up a reflector server in the cloud (not to mention how that me

Sure you don't need it, but you may _want_ it. Consider that some people really don't want to set up a reflector server in the cloud (not to mention how that means your reflector server's bandwidth limit becomes your whole VPN's bandwidth limit). Having the nitty-gritty of the data plane be peer to peer as much as possible means that your network has practically unlimited data. If I am trying to SSH into one of the machines under my desk I shouldn't need to poke a server in a datacenter downtown to do it. There's also a bunch of people that want the convenience of being able to access things like their Synology NAS remotely. I'm almost certain that none of them want to set up a server in the cloud, or even understand what that means. Not everyone is super technically apt, and as a matter of policy we shouldn't try and make things with the assumption that everyone using them is a computing god already. People have to start from somewhere and it's perfectly okay for some people to not want to deep dive into the unrestrained horror of managing linux servers. Things you don't have to do are easier than things you have to do.