I don't see it any more cumbersome than Juniper, Cisco, or any other enterprise hardware manufacturer(not saying that Mikrotik is enterprise hardware...) I man

I don't see it any more cumbersome than Juniper, Cisco, or any other enterprise hardware manufacturer(not saying that Mikrotik is enterprise hardware...) I manage several networks totaling 500+ Mikrotik routers. Once or twice I have run into upgrade issues that had to be resolved with a technician on site (broke vlan configs) Just once the update wiped the config. This is out of several thousand successful updates. I've run into similar issues with other big router manufacturers. Like most companies, you do not want to be on the 'bleeding edge' of their updates unless absolutely necessary. They do have a significant problem with regressions in their updates.