This is the reality of what sapir-whorf was guessing at. The way it's defined is incorrect IIRC, but the real heart of it I think stemmed from this kind of reality of distinction.
The fact people think it's normal and don't realize it's not, especially once they get older simply being unwilling to think otherwise...yeah.
Probably rewrite gateway rules. I believe that's the rule I use for forwarding out over Cloudflare WARP when my ISP is shitting a brick. All I have to do is toggle like one thing now to make it work instantly for all local traffic. Probably just need the same rule applying on the inbound VPN side.