Agreed about the firewall side of things! I was complaining about the switch & VLAN side of things - I find myself pretty proficient in general Linux networking

Agreed about the firewall side of things! I was complaining about the switch & VLAN side of things - I find myself pretty proficient in general Linux networking tools but couldn’t figure out their switching/bridging/VLAN configuration despite easily being able to do it on a Linux command line with brctl/etc. I suspect it’s a necessary evil though as Mikrotik’s custom config system for this may not actually use Linux networking subsystems and interacts directly with the hardware to enable hardware offload.