While the rant is valid, I feel like the amount of effort venting about this was equal to or more than actually attempting to get this to work. The author claims that there is "a fair amount of multicast in play which could be part of the issue," but there are no inherent issues with multicast over wifi. My suspicion is that it uses mDNS or some other _link-local_ multicast protocol for discovery. This isn't really news though; any network operator that supports Apple TVs, Chromecasts, etc on their network has had to deal with this (and most vendors have solutions for proxying mDNS).
Proxying mDNS is such a pain if your vendor doesn't have something built-in.
Like when you have to start creating VXLANs to accommodate devices that assume L2 adjacency or installing L7 proxies I think it's fair to say there's some fault with the application vendor.
