I use pangolin as the front, which checks in with Authentik as the SSO before it lets anyone through to the actual apps. Pangolin itself acts a bit like my reverse proxy so my caddy takes a back seat and isnt used for too much. Pangolin comes with crowdsec as well.

Yup, its a good game as well. It’s a bit too zippy fast paced for my tastes. Everyone jumping and ziplining everywhere ruins a lot of the cool positional tactics that can manifest in games that keep the movement abilities modest. By the time someone calls out a position its already moot information. But finals makes up for it in other ways like the destruction, etc. Definitely a good game

The hook for me is the lack of respawn numbness. Something about insta respawn shooters just turns my brain off and lulls me into boring mental stagnation as I throw myself on the gears. It’s the high longer term stakes that are the interesting part. Failing in the heat of the short moment, and thinking back on what you mightve done better. But you’ll never experience that exact situation again, so you just try to carry your lessons forward. It’s a different pacing that keeps things novel and memorable

To each their own, but i enjoyed every second of my several years playing PUBG. It’s the same hook as Ironman style high paranoia solo games like Project Zomboid or many others. High stakes, ambient stress, and extremely quick and sudden failures that hone your instinct for next time. I enjoy single player games and many other genres as well for different reasons/goals. I dont think the royale/extraction genres are just fundamentally faulted like you suggest