Openwrt still has some strange footguns (imo) and the upgrade process is painful. I personally just prefer running general-purpose distros for my routing and firewalling needs. I realize the learning curve for this for someone who just wants a home router is unrealistic though :)

But out of all the router/firewall distros, OpenWRT it is by far the best.

I just recently started using OpenWRT and only have done one upgrade, but I‘ve found it really straightforward using Attended Sysupgrade https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/installation/attended.sy...