Might be better, but it’s 4x the cost. Firewalla Gold SE at $509, vs UniFi Cloud Gateway Ultra at $129. In my experience, the software does work fine. Works way better out of the box than most routers I’ve used.
Yeah when I got 10 Gbit internet at home, all the options for a router looked really expensive so I bought a Lenovo ThinkCentre Tiny for $80 + $20 for the riser+NIC, and installed OpenWRT on it. Runs like a charm, power draw is a the same as the ISP's monthly rental router.
I'm absolutely loving my ThinkCentre M920q, riser + Intel i350 NIC + ProxMox. I had not forayed into the wifi router world for over 10 years, and am amazed how much power, and how little power consumption, you can get for ~$150.
