Regarding the spinning wheel
If accessed with a browser over http you never get through but the clients on desktop and mobile worked with http. At least until a few weeks ago. That forced me to get it working with a reverse proxy. Neither traefik nor npm did the trick and now I have a beautiful pangolin instance running on my vps. That software is amazing so far.
Not the question but still: pangolin reverse proxy does tailscale like features. I did it all, from cloudflare, bare bones wireguard, tailscale. Pangolin just works for me. Throw it on a cheap vps (mine is 3€ a month) and it's set and forget.
Same play as the phone cards 15 years ago that you used to dial cheap international calls. All went through the NSA. Don't hate the player. Also:encrypt sensitive information regardless of network.
Regarding the holw: Europe is where the us was 10 years ago. Roughly. What are we and you (wherever you live) doing or supposed to be doing to counteract reactionary plays, populists and sometimes outright fascist that are moving back into the middle of most societies of Europe's countries?
Das machen DIE doch dauernd aus Opportunismus. Besonders im Leistungssport. Und Justizvollzug. Und die Ethnizität gleich mit. In der Politik.