For me, I get to run whatever I want instead of being limited to whatever mikrotik has implemented, eg CAKE QoS, Wireguard and dnscrypt-proxy. I also feel much

For me, I get to run whatever I want instead of being limited to whatever mikrotik has implemented, eg CAKE QoS, Wireguard and dnscrypt-proxy. I also feel much more confident in the open source applications like dropbear and uhttpd than Mikrotiks proprietary implementations which have had numerous security flaws over the years.