It really is unfortunate. I’ve owned two Airport devices: an Extreme from 2004 (UFO shape, opaque white model) and the current model that I bought back in 2015.

It really is unfortunate. I’ve owned two Airport devices: an Extreme from 2004 (UFO shape, opaque white model) and the current model that I bought back in 2015. Both have been entirely painless and have performed extremely well. The older of the two served for a decade without so much as flinching the whole time. Software support for them has been great and as far as I know, no Airport has ever been subject to mass exploits. I’ll keep using my last gen extreme for the time being, but I don’t look forward to shopping for a new router when the time comes. There are plenty of options with great specs/performance but with nation-states and botnet owners exploiting huge numbers of routers with increasing frequency I worry about getting caught with a vulnerable unit. The firmware quality that many mainstream router companies ship their routers with is shockingly bad.