you appear to be describing a peer relay: https://tailscale.com/docs/features/peer-relay
Note: I'm a tailscale employee
Note: I'm a tailscale employee
What I'm thinking of is something far more opportunistic; the way to piggyback on an existing peer (or a set of such) as a pseudo-relay, if and only if network conditions allow, and this is actually something that is worth doing in the given situation.