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For those who wondering: best practical use of I2P is to tunnel SSH access to obscure devices behind NAT where you can't or dont want to use something like Tailscale. Or imagine you have that torrent box you using for seeding obscure book or music collection. You can pay for the server with crypto, but I2P is good to make sure you can access and configure it privately.

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Have you heard of yggdrasil then? It sounds like it would be a better match for your use candidate

yggdrasil is a "greynet". End-to-end encrypted, self-organizing via DHT, but no onion/garlic routing. Has interop capabilities with both Tor and I2P though, and some yggdrasil nodes are I2P- or Tor-only. A world-tree with roots (tunnels) going in all the spheres of existence (nets)

Hands out IPv6 addresses to its users. These addresses are generated automatically from the signature of your public key, so essentially impossible to spoof, and automatic authentication, plus end-to-end encryption. As if IPsec was pervasive and completely transparent

I'd say "best" practical use is those of people under threat of institutions and nations and it works well for simple access. It even has a stealth mode for censorship regimes in which your router doesn't advertise itself and lays down.

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