Can you use NWC from any other node? Did you test it ? Coinos, lnwallet.app, rizful, nodana, minibits or any other service that provide a NWC access, can you test it, if your ISP is not filtering?

If NWC works, you can convert very easily your remote node into a Alby Hub with NWC. You can even create sub-accounts as uncle Jim for more people.

The management part can still be done through a Thunderhub in a Tor browser but using effectively that LN node for payments can be done over NWC.

NWC is a wonderful way to simply use LN accounts: https://nwc.dev/