It’s a fine way to get started; sure. You probably need ssh anyway and getting forwarding up for free is neat. It also had the historical advantage of existing; wireguard is new. Perf is sometimes not great, but at least you’re likely to get better crypto than most default OpenVPN installations I’ve seen. But it’s not a great long-term solution; whereas wireguard will last you for a long time :-)
Sorry, I meant scale over number of boxes and services, not so much scale over time. Other people in this thread have given some rationale, but: perf, better baseline crypto (you always know what you’re getting), it’s a real network connection so you can talk to hosts with stuff like ICMP, smaller trusted codebase, more confidence in the underlying protocol...
