> I also don't think it's possible to make Meshtastic into the kind of reliable and high-performance mesh network some users want without effectively dropping s

> I also don't think it's possible to make Meshtastic into the kind of reliable and high-performance mesh network some users want without effectively dropping support for most battery-powered devices Interesting. Zigbee has this distinction between router node and non-router node. Routers are active members of the mesh (relay). Non-routers are just clients. Most battery devices in Zigbee acts generally as non-router. It is surprising that Meshtastic did not follow this pattern. Zigbee is not a young protocol.