Ok, I understand where the FCC would have an interest in regulating peoples ability to easily screw around with transmission power or frequency. But why does it

Ok, I understand where the FCC would have an interest in regulating peoples ability to easily screw around with transmission power or frequency. But why does it have to extend to the rest of the firmware. Can we at least agree on the middle ground where the radio firmware can be locked, but the rest of the firmware is open to modification. 3 years ago I switched to TomatoUSB firmware, and since then I power cycled my router to get it to work again exactly ZERO times. It just works. I use default power and band, and I am not using any special features of the TomatoUSB, the only reason I run it is because it's rock solid, unlike EVERY stock OEM software I ever tried. On a more interesting note, why are stock OEM firmwares so incredibly bad? I mean, there are open source alternatives they can use, or just write there own stuff that works. You would think that a large company like Linksys or Netgear would have at least one programer worth something working for them. No?