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Both the GUI and their CLI are among the most unintuitive systems I've ever seen. I definitely spent more than one evening trying to configure my Mikrotik from

Both the GUI and their CLI are among the most unintuitive systems I've ever seen. I definitely spent more than one evening trying to configure my Mikrotik from scratch as a typical home router + switch + AP. I'm no networking guru, I only did some Cisco stuff a few years ago at uni, but I didn't understand 80 % of the terms used in their OS.

Railander 5y ago
Agreed, MikroTik is extremely complex due to how feature-rich it is and because they run the same OS across all their devices, regardless of router/switch/AP/generation. Definitely not for the faint of heart that simply want to do some basic networking. On the other hand, I'm not sure "unintuitive" is the correct word here. Having had the (dis)pleasure of setting up complex topologies on other manufactures like Cisco I found MikroTik to be considerably more intuitive (or perhaps "less unintuitive" would be more appropriate), possibly because Cisco has been built on for many decades and new features were constantly added on top of existing systems for compatibility purposes instead of redoing the CLI from scratch to make a more consistent user experience.