I do love OpenWrt but the upgrade experience is still a pain because user-installed packages need to be reinstalled manually. More so if your WAN connection relies on these packages (USB modems), then you have to either pre-download them or build a custom image.
So what would be the difference? Through the lab-leak discussion we have identified labs as a _potential_ threat that need tighter security measures. Even if this virus did not originate in a lab we are just waiting for one that actually does.
Public traffic space is limited (and in major cities exhausted) supply. Being "pro something else" is automatically anti-something. If do not make the latter part explicit it will just hurt the weakest group (typically reducing space for pedestrians).
I have played around with netdata just yesterday on my home server. Great tool, but the defaults are overkill for my needs. After spending an hour trying to simplify (=disable most of the "collectors") using the documentation, I finally gave up.
Settled on neofetch [1] instead: pure bash, wrote my own custom inputs including color coding for incident reporting in less time than it took me to strip down netdata. Highly recommended if you want to spend your time on other things than (setting up) server monitoring.
All of this. However, the issue is that coding the paper is only _one_ (and often not the biggest) step from idea to published paper. Worse, once the paper is published typically nobody cares for your code and whether its test coverage is x% (at least here in the social sciences).
I'm not saying that I support this (quite the opposite), but that's the outcome of our publish-fast-and-frequently-culture to get tenure.
Nota bene, I observe an increasing number of exceptions to this rule in my field, but still a minority.
Wireguard comes with an example script [1] that does DNS updates for peers, which works well for me in a cron job. Archwiki also has an example for systemd timers [2]. But if your question is specifically about phones, then this might get a bit more complicated to set up.