the problem is the 'easy to install' requirement. Too many vendors (including ones that used to be easy to install) are adding extra hoops to jump through on the newer models.

Yes. My fantasy (I can still have fantasies, right? :-) is that people buy one of our recommended routers for a modest price, download our recommended firmware, go to the vendor's "update firmware" page, upload it and reboot.

Then they plug the new router's WAN port into their ISP modem's port, connect their laptop's Ethernet to the LAN port, point their browser to "openwrt.lan" (see https://forum.openwrt.org/t/cerowrt-ii-would-anyone-care/110554/106) and set the router password, configure SQM, [configure Wi-Fi], and go back to fishing, reading, or other productive work.

Simple, eh? (I wish...)

Rich