Ztunnel was not designed to be a feature-rich data plane.
Quite the opposite - an *aggressively* small feature set is the key feature that makes ztunnel viable.
It very intentionally does not offer L7 (HTTP) functionality, for instance, which would likely violate some of the goals above, without contributing to them.
Instead, the rich functionality that service mesh is traditionally associated with is deferred to the waypoints.

Extensions API group): Kubernetes can schedule a service (such as a logging
agent) that runs one, and only one, pod per node.
     * TLS and L7 support (Ingress API (Beta) in the Extensions API group): Kubernetes
is now easier to integrate into custom networking environments by supporting
TLS for secure communication and L7 http-based traffic routing.
     * Graceful Node Shutdown (aka drain) - The new “kubectl drain” command gracefully