My answer here _used_ to be the Ubiquity Edgerouter-X series, but unfortunately Ubiquity has killed that line of products and they don't seem to be in the prosumer grade affordable router market anymore.

I still enjoy my little Edgerouter-X SFP, it's fast, compact, power efficient and I can plug my fiber internet connection straight into the SFP slot. Management can be done via SSH. What's not to like?

Edit: and yes, I know the edgerouters are still listed in the ubnt shop, but they have been 'sold out' for the past 3 years now. I don't think they'll ever return.

I would love to know as well, because I’ve been looking at MirkoTik as well. They are basically the only European manufacturer of network gear I’ve been able to find, for “consumers”.

Maybe reflash with OpenWRT if you are an iptables guy. I would not do it personally though.

https://openwrt.org/toh/start?dataflt%5BBrand*%7E%5D=MikroTi...

I've bought three Protectli servers/routers and put OpenBSD on all of them with great success. (With coreboot!) I highly recommend taking a look at https://protectli.com/product-comparison/ though they do cost more than the microtik routers.

Another option if you don't need tremendous performance is https://pcengines.ch/ which also runs OpenBSD very well.

Netgate[0] (pfSense) is what I use, for edge routing at least. They had a big and long-awaited release today.

[0] https://netgate.com

Is Draytek any good? I've just gotten their AX router as the first installment in a mesh home network - ultimate goal is to have separate VLANs for IOT vs core devices.

Immediate experience has been so so - the router kept rebooting every 12 hours - had to disable the AX interface and keep it wired only. WiFi is currently coming through a Netgear AC access point, which defeats the purpose of the system. I'm thinking if I should switch manufacturers before I get in too deep...

Hard to beat Mikrotik

hAP AC running Openwrt.