Power users are the extremely small market.
Most people don't care, it should just work and OpenWRT doesn't have a (built-in) webui at all by default.[0]
If want to see a proper router webui for a prosumer router - look at ZyXel Keenetic, but take a note what they are honing it for more than a decade.
[0] at least as I understand it, didn't touch it for the deacde
Upgrading with non custom builds is a pain point as is removes the installed packages, which can lead to issues such as your remote router suddenly having no vpn connection.
That being said, I now prefer openwrt compatible routers as debugging and customization is soooo much easier.
That's why I added that caveat - I didn't toouch it in a long time nor the quick suface search helped me
> That being said, I now prefer openwrt compatible routers
Well, if I would be in a market for a new one I would, of course, prefer one with such support, but I'm definetly in, at least, a prosumer market.
>OpenWrt can be configured through either a command-line interface or a web interface called LuCI
It's been a long time since I used it myself, but I recall it having a web interface, and I didn't have to do anything special in the command line to set it up, it just had it.
From what I recall, it wasn't that different from the software that my router had before hand, other than that it had more features.
The quick start docs seem to support this:
https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-quick-start/walkthrough_login