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OpenWRT was born from WiFi... That's the valuable stuff for most of the market. The "router" aspect was the bundled part.

If you don't want wifi aspect, perhaps look at Mikrotik stuff?

https://openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/er605_v2?s[]=er605v2

This one doesn't have WiFi, just 5 Ethernet ports. It can be flashed openwrt with a very reasonable amount of tweaking. It's actually quite powerful and has 256M of RAM and 128M of flash memory. I have one, it's very cool.

> In the default setup, the “Routing/NAT Offloading” for the ER605 is disabled. This may slow down the ER605 enormously (50% slower).

Is that because of a binary blob dependency for offloading?

Seems like they’re starting to do this as mesh is becoming common. In my apartment, my ISP has a permanently installed router without wifi. Then they just send you a wifi router or mesh devices depending on your requirements.

I never buy routers w wifi. Running PC Engines APU4 with Ubiquiti AP is more rock solid/stable than anything else I ever ran which had wifi+wired in a single router.