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I have switched over to using Tailscale. But that only works if the devices are mine before the friction of someone else’s device being set up happens

The basic paid plan is pretty cheap and lets you use your_subdomain_name.ngrok.com as the address.

In my opinion, (2) is a feature, not a bug. You never know what kind of connection your users have. Ngrok forces you to consider the "bad connection" factor early on in development, which can avoid many pitfalls that occur when network software assumes that latency is zero and bandwidth is unlimited.

It’s not a feature imo when there are other ways to force a “bad connection”. However with ngrok if latency is bad. You can’t ever change fhat.

That's a fair point.

I suppose latency is important if you use ngrok for something other than development. I use ngrok exclusively for development, so that's where my comment comes from.

Yeah I don't fault them at all - what they're doing is going to be inherently difficult from a latency POV. I'm really comparing it against just opening a port to your local network.