I think it was more of just realizing it might be easier to call wg-quick rather than use wgctrl. We try to set node settings like they would be in a conf file, but there's no postup/postdown in wgctrl so need to set iptables directly. Then when we started setting up UDP hole punching we had to put in some workarounds to avoid bringing down/up the interface each time, and were thinking using something like wg sync would be easier.