huh .. OpenVPN is UDP by default but you can force it to TCP (we had to do that at one University site that would only open limited tcp ports for us).

I also discovered Wireguard cannot bind to a specific adapter or IP address if you have multiple address on a server. That might not seem like as a big a deal since it only responds to fully authenticated packets, but it does mean that outgoing packets could be leaving from a different IP address than incoming packets.

It's weird that something that's now making it into mainline can't do this very simple kind of bind that almost every other userlevel service, and OpenVPN, can do.

I know, but the performance takes a massive hit. Have you tried it? Maybe it was something I did wrong.

In some cases, countries. In the country I'm thinking of (name omitted on purpose), you have an effective choice of two ISPs, both government-controlled.