I run opnsense, so I need to dump pi-hole. But I don’t have the energy right now to do that.

Pi-Hole was pretty straightforward at the time and I did not look back since then. Annoying, but easy.

That’s my case. I send every new subdomain to my nginx IP on pi-hole and then use nginx as a reverse proxy

Tell that to someone starting out and look at their deer in the headlight face. Then you’ll realize that the point went over your head.