Its simple usability polish. Tomato had it, OpenWRT doesn't. But where it shines is in the reliability. I've been using it for over 10 years, and prior to that DD-WRT on a 54L.

That's the biggest challenge with many of these open source tools. They're built to solve a single or handful of problems, but don't always fit for a larger audience. I'm not complaining either, and I'd be happy to provide the polish, but right now, my time is spent with my clients ($$).

If you invest the time in getting it configured the way you want, you'll be happy too, for 10 years. ;)

Food for thought of why I'm exploring other options currently: 1. Need a WAN failover that can check with a custom heartbeat 2. Need an easy-to-configure VPN that doesn't use an open port, but will register against my own cloud server 3. Need an easy way to monitor traffic of particular devices - DNS queries and active connections 4. Need a big button to turn off the internet for all, and individual buttons to turn it of for specific devices 5. Need an easy way to manage VLANs and traffic routing rules (for local-only designated devices)