The complexity doesn’t even help it work well. For example: https://web.archive.org/web/20210919013400/https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/ticket/375 https:

The complexity doesn’t even help it work well. For example: https://web.archive.org/web/20210919013400/https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/ticket/375 https://web.archive.org/web/20210919013400/https://community... OpenVPN is simply bad at networking irrespective of any security considerations. (Wireguard, AFAICT, does the right thing with regard to MTU and is much simpler as a result. OpenVPN seems to go out of its way to be wrong.)