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Another postive note here for Mikrotik - $50 USD buys you the hAP ac lite - enough for a "home" router but with all the features of top end enterprise routers.

Other comments have addressed security concerns - there's lots of CVE's out there because there's lots of Mikrotiks out there. As far as I'm aware, all or nearly all CVE's are patched before they are public; there's always the risk of zerodays but everything has the risk of zerodays.

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I would go for the hAP AC or AC2, rather than the lite versions, which are specifically the low end of the range and can only route ~500Mbps and don't have 5GHz wireless.

The difference in price isn't even that much, the AC2 is less than $70.

This is good advice for a "one device does it all" setup.

My personal setup is actually running the hap AC lites as access points, via CAPsMAN. I do routing on a hex Gr3. The hap ac lites are great value for a dual-radio 2.4/5ghz ap.

I also have an all-mikrotik passive poe setup, so it's one lead to the ac lites. Similar featureset to ubnt, cisco, others, at a fraction of the price.

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