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I also have T-Mobile 5G. I once had the luxury of being able to buy fiber 1G up/down before I moved to a new area and that was the absolute best of any ISP I've ever had. Now my only real option with a physical connection is Xfinity copper that was offering 200mbps down 10 mbps up for just $50/mo* terms and conditions apply. $50 is the promotional price for this offer. After one year this offer will expire. Then every year id have to field a call from their promotional dept. offering a 100mbps increase to my speeds for just $5 more per month rather than losing the promotional price and the bill costing $80 with no increase. The straw that broke the camel's back was an attempt to charge an extra $5 a month for using autopay with a debit card. I could save that fee by switching to using my bank's routing number. So I told Comcast 🖕and switched.
My favorite story though is when an Xfinity rep called me to ask about who provides my cell phone service. When I told them that i use Mint mobile and pay $20/mo for 20GB of data or whatever it was at the time, they just straight up told me, "Oh gotcha. Yeah, we can't compete at that price." Then hung up 😂
My only real gripe with T-Mobile so far is that if your price is accurate, then I'm paying an extra $15/mo just based on location despite there being no physical difference in our connection. Also i don't like that I'm unable to do any port forwarding on T-Mobile so it prevents me from running my Jellyfin server and PiHole from home and being able to use it anywhere.
I'm "locked in" at t-mo on price and also have my cell phone with t-mobile. If you aren't on a cell phone plan with them I think they were charging $50 a month. I don't know how long they were offering the $30 deal. I swapped to them pretty early on them having it.
As for your port forwarding issue, t mobiles gateway may not offer that, but it has an ethernet port. Why don't you plug your own wifi router into that and set up port forwarding there and then just treat the gateway as a modem?
I already have my own router connected to it, but I'm a very amateur networker. I taught myself pretty much everything I know through tutorials and blog posts. As far as my knowledge extends, there's no way to open public facing ports through the T-Mobile firewall.
My current workaround is just hosting it on my parent's network and using SCP to transfer my linux ISOs to the server. (Which...sidenote...why were we never taught anything about the SCP command in any computer courses in school?)
I don't think tailscale (headscale for foss) requires pf. I could be remembering wrong, so don't hold me to it, but worth a look.