The only thing is they're definitely not designed for regular consumers, you at least need familiarity with Linux networking.
Ubiquity gear is structured the same way: It, too, absolutely runs Linux, and it uses a custom userland.
One of these userlands is friendlier than the other, but they're both still Linux.
It's a tale as old as the hills, or at least as old as the OG Linksys WRT54G -- which was my own first foray into owning dedicated routing hardware ~20 years ago (which was -- guess what -- Linux with a custom userland). (Previous to that, I used Linux with the userland of my choosing on my desktop PC.)
From that point I found the CLI to be relatively discoverable as a way to configure the devices.
I like RouterOS well enough, though.
So I installed openwrt. They're actually pretty well supported by openwrt (except for the newer 10g switches)
You mean an RFC1918 for etherboot? I have a "few" of these devices and this simply doesn't make any sense in any context.
I've since wiped the firmware/license keys so no idea.
Mikrotik has had quickset (a single page configuration for home use) for 8+ years, Android Home app for 3+ years
port forwarding? ofcourse how else can the kid have a minecraft server with friends
dynamic dns? then the friends don't need to search "what's my ip" every time
parental controls? to schedule how much time they can play minecraft...
I like Mikrotik but for anyone trying to go beyond the barebones default firewall/router/ap on the quickset page you need to be prepared to learn. i.e. To make a DHCP reservation, you go through the menus until you click IP, then you realise you don't click on DHCP client to set up a DHCP client you go into DHCP server and try to give a device a reservation which requires the step of making it static first then seperately setting it's IP.
The complaint basically boils down to: they have all the options there and available and the least common task is just as easy to do as the 2nd most common (after initial basic setup), and if a task touches multiple parts of the config you need to touch each of those parts. Great for someone who knows what they're doing but for a home user it would be great to have more quickset pages for the 2nd to 10th most common tasks (as intagible as that list is).
I tell people to jump into Ubiquiti's (ui.com) ecosystem which is much more accessible for power users who occasionally wrestle with concepts like wireless, VLANs, subnets, and traffic rules.