[zupzupper]

These over the top services handle node discovery and meshing for you, instead of you having to feed configurations manually down to each device you want to hook up to wireguard.

Convenience features etc

[notarget137]

For a non-network person that is surely a convinience. I prefer pushing my configs through ansible and not thinking about it.

[LeBit]

But then you cannot scale.

You do not see the problem because you probably manage less than 5 nodes.