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Wildcard is actually good these days because you don’t have to set up DNS entries for your hostnames.
It’s not security, just obscurity - but in the age of crawlers, it’s helpful.
Also, you can use it internally for services on LAN and because LetsEncrypt is a CA everyone trusts, you don’t need to register a local CA (like a FreeIPA instance) with all your devices- which sometimes isn’t possible.
EDIT: you can also use DNS01 challenges and instead of proving yourself by serving up a challenge response from a server, you prove ownership by adding a DNS TXT entry with the response. It is safer, from a security perspective, to use one cert per service.
IIRC for my setup it's a bit of both. My DNS API key is scoped to only handle the specific subdomain updates instead of my entire DNS account.
I still use a wildcard for that subdomain for non-kubernetes systems, but the cert plugins for kubes is excellent at handling a LE cert per lan fqdn.
This was my biggest reason to move to Let's Encrypt. I have a Hashicorp Vault instance in my homelab for secrets and I tried using it for an internal CA (like how the lab at work is set up), but trying to get on every device and add the full Vault chain to each individual system's trust store was massive pain in the ass.