MikroTik isn’t even in the same league as UniFi. Their interfaces and docs are terrible. The only reason I ever considered buying something from them is because they had a good price for a 10gb switch. If you want a dumb device you can’t beat their price.
Check out a few of the reviews on Amazon. Seed and Don’s reviews are very critical.
Is there anything in this space that is good hardware with a decent UI? When I looked the options were consumer crap or very expensive enterprise hardware with no UI.
I'm not sure if the UI is 'consumer friendly' but I didn't need the commandline and I had never worked with any HP networking gear prior to that, and had no difficulties.
The problem is there are too many features packed into a an interface that could be mistaken for something designed 20 years ago.
For some people that is not an issue, but it is a barrier to them competing with the mainstream devices.
Oh yeah, UniFi APs seem to need rebooting periodically to keep working well. My old OpenWRT gear was rock solid with a year of uptime.
I’m currently migrating away. I’m sick of it.
Running that stuff on a UPS is super beneficial regardless.
Decades ago, I was a network engineer working in production data centers. I’m used to setting up switches manually. But I have no professional experience with setting up meshed WiFi networks. I like that the Ubiquiti APs “just work” for the most part.
I’ve started to notice weird AP/client failures with my ubiquiti gear and debugging is a nightmare. It seems that ubiquiti has hidden a lot of useful information in an overzealous effort to streamline UX.
I've never seen any Mikrotik product available to ship, it's always on back order. I've even had resellers call me up and offer alternatives because my order was on back order.