Better routing functionality (at least until the last bits of load balancing and policy based routing land), but MicroTik is hard to manage for anything but the

Better routing functionality (at least until the last bits of load balancing and policy based routing land), but MicroTik is hard to manage for anything but the simplest use cases. Plus you don't get the single pane of glass management across your WIFI / Switch / Routing ecosystem. In fact, you have to change the operating system you use on the switch depending on which features you want w/ Mikrotek. Aruba and TP-Link Omada did huge marketing pushes to take advantage when Ubiquiti got hit with this crap. Every person I have talked to that switched from Unifi gear to Arbua Instant-On has moved back off of it over the last year. There is some selection bias there, but you can see the same thing in the youtube tech blogger(s) as well. That said, I think if you are not going Unifi for WIFI, your best bet is either CISCO or alternatively go mesh. If you want to go down the more powerful path for routing I strongly suggest OPNSense / PFSense.