When dealing with consumer-grade network equipment, this is the same question that always comes to my mind: who decided these devices should have their manageme

When dealing with consumer-grade network equipment, this is the same question that always comes to my mind: who decided these devices should have their management features open for WAN access by default? I'm still not sure if it was an early 2000s fad that nobody really thought about, or it was deliberate (and if so, why).