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I see no mention of being able to use 2 or 3 of these things in an Wi-Fi extender type of scenario that I can do with my current Airport Extreme routers.

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Their FAQ suggests increasing coverage by having one unit act as the router (doing NAT), and having others act as (bridged) access points:

https://support.google.com/onhub/answer/6275097?vid=1-635755...

This method seems really cumbersome compared to the Airport Extreme and their wireless bridging method.

Ehm... that's pretty much the exact same method you use on Airport Extreme if you care about speeds (one being the NAT machine, others APs connected with cables).

If you're doing the wireless bridge you're trading off a lot of wireless bandwidth (and added noise) just to get data from one Airport to another. Far from an optimal setup.

I was wondering the same thing.

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