Products need to fail or become undesirable to use after 3 years so you buy a new one.
Except that 2 times was crashed and then start with blank settings.
Sell a whizzy router with go fast blue LEDs for $150 that dies after 3 years and you make $750 in 15 years.
Advertise it with some “value add” MITM dns hijacking by default and you can even get a recurrent revenue stream on top of it. Bundle it as “Internet security” and you can charge bothe the customer and the advertiser.
I've purchase other Linksys stuff and few mine friends bought new routers because of mine recommendation.
But that was before they switch to VxWorks OS. Once they switch i didn't recommend them anymore.