Have you considered plug-ins for other platforms

Have you considered or looked into porting your plug-in to Fluidd (https://docs.fluidd.xyz/) or Mainsail (https://docs.mainsail.xyz/).

Octoprint is a nice tool, but I would like to use one of the Klipper specific Pi platforms, like the more stream lined and less resource intensive Mainsail and Fluidd platforms. The only really issue I have with them is that there isn’t a great way monitor, or start jobs outside of the “home” network without either creating some very questionable security hole in the network, or dong something hooky, like goggle desktop.

Use tailscale. No holes needed.