I'm scratching my head as to why I don't hear about more people running Raspberry Pis as APs off the built-in WiFi for smaller (in terms of number of clients) n

I'm scratching my head as to why I don't hear about more people running Raspberry Pis as APs off the built-in WiFi for smaller (in terms of number of clients) networks. I chucked up hostapd on Debian at one point and was surprised to see how good coverage it got. Outperformed devices in higher price-range without even attaching an antenna.