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Everyone is saying subdomains so I'll try to give a reason for paths. Using subdomains makes local access a bit harder. With paths you can use httpS://192etc/example, but if you use subdomains, how do you connect internally with https? Https://example.192etc won't work as you can't mix an ip address with domain resolution. You'll have to use http://192etc:port. So no httpS for internal access. I got around this by hosting adguard as a local DNS and added an override so that my domain resolved to the local IP. But this won't work if you're connected to a VPN as it'll capture your DNS requests, if you use paths you could exclude the IP from the VPN.
Edit: not sure what you mean by "more setup", you should be using a reverse proxy either way.
If your router has NAT reflection, then the problem you describe is non existent. I use the same domain/protocol both inside and outside my network.
Does NAT reflection still work if your PC is connected to a VPN?
I don't know for sure... but my instinct is that NAT reflection is moot in that case, because your connection is going out past the edge router and doing the DNS query there, which will then direct you back to your public IP. I'm sure there's somebody around that knows the answer for certain!
Depends:
If you have your VPN setup so it sends all traffic to the internet, then your request will pass through the VPN server, then back to your location from the internet.
If you have your VPN setup to exempt LAN traffic, then if you specify a local IP, your traffic will stay on your LAN, however, if you specify the domain, the VPN will almost certainly continue to treat it as internet-bound traffic and route it through their servers. This is possibly avoidable if you also put your own IP on the exempt list, if that is a feature.