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Not bad practice just not as secure.
You can't beat the security of not exposing it but sometimes you need to so then you need to mitigate it with certs, reverse proxy or VPN.
It depends on what you need and what your thread model is.
I have my nextcloud server exposed, I keep it up to date, patched, etc. but I'd love to use the extra protection of a VPN. Just ... I don't think mobile apps work very well with that, unless I keep my phone constantly connected to the VPN, right? Or is there a smart way to do that?
this thread mentions an OVPN client that can do split tunneling so all you'd do is whitelist your server in the android phone and turn it on.
ProtonVPN has tunneling too, for instance, but no self hosting option.