I've had plenty of frustrations with it. But AFAICT it's the best on-ramp to the Unifi ecosystem. It's a new system, and it shows – plenty of rough edges. For

I've had plenty of frustrations with it. But AFAICT it's the best on-ramp to the Unifi ecosystem. It's a new system, and it shows – plenty of rough edges. For example, ethernet connection drops between my Thunderbolt dock and the UDM (resolved by sticking a switch in-between). There's a learning curve for sure. It will be tough if you aren't already strong with basic networking concepts. It's also frustrating to run into Ubiquiti forum posts that don't apply to the UDM, because it doesn't expose the same low-level config tooling as their other products. I can't fix my VLAN-mDNS troubles due to that. Over time, I expect to replace the router/gateway responsibilities with Protectli hardware and OPNsense. But at least now I have solid WiFi to build upon.