Ummm... you haven't used Inlets, have you?
But seriously, folks who use Inlets have typically tried a bunch of the obvious solutions and end up there when all else has failed them.
First of all, it's not "a" tunnel. It's however many you need to access the applications on your private network... which could be your laptop.
It's not for everyone, but if you're running lots of apps on, say, your laptop and you want to have TLS everywhere, none of the comparably priced options come close.