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There's nothing wrong with making a reverse proxy only for use inside your homelab. It's one way to resolve internal DNS queries and give addresses to your services. It's perhaps the best, because it's the only way I know that doesn't necessitate remembering port numbers.
E.g. You are hosting something at 192.168.1.20 on port 3310. Even if you set a local DNS record for pihole.itjust.donn to resolve to 192.168.1.20, you'll still have to type pihole.itjust.donn:3310 to access it. The same isn't true with a reverse proxy.
This is good to know because I'm learning about nginx currently, so I'm glad it has practical use without opening up my network 🤘
Call me careless, but I personally don't think exposing services publicly is that big of a deal. I've been publicly exposing Home Assistant, Jellyfin, Immich, Joplin and a few others for at least 3 years now with no repercussions. Everyone's risk tolerance is different, but I wouldn't write off publicly available services. Precautions like a reverse proxy, Crowdsec, Fail2ban, and Authelia all lower the risk profile.