Preventing other users on your network from snooping the administrative credentials to your LAN services for one (easy to do on WiFi, even if you use WPA). Also

Preventing other users on your network from snooping the administrative credentials to your LAN services for one (easy to do on WiFi, even if you use WPA). Also, if one of your devices switches off your WiFi and onto cellular, and you are using basic authentication, you are not only sending your credentials to whoever owns home.com, but also doing so in plain text. If you did that on some public wifi, that could get picked up by someone snooping. Sure, they wouldn't know where your services are, but why put a crack in your security when you don't need to? > I can just link people from home.com to a page with an ssl cert if it became necessary for some reason The only way that would work is if you use a root certificate authority and have them install it as trusted in their device, which is asking them to compromise their security, because that authority will be trusted for all TLS validation on any domain.