Sure, I read articles that pointed out some of the deficiencies of mesh networking in general. E.g.:

http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/cn/papers/knightly-...

That caused me to broaden my search. I recalled hearing about Ubiquiti from another group of friends/colleagues who I also respected. When the sr most network guy at my company confirmed he ran Ubiquiti Unifi APs at his home, I started looking at the price as well as trying to figure out how complex the physical setup would be (as contrasted with a mesh).

I then realized I could support my entire home with a single AP and wire the rest of the devices. This made me chose a wired+Unifi solution over a mesh one like eero.