One thing that frustrates me about MikroTik and OpenWRT too, is a lot of things require multiple steps to set up, like adding a port forward with hairpin isn't just one click, adding a VLAN requires adding stuff in like 5+ different places.

I really liked using Opnsense before I switched to Openwrt and I always want to go back, because it was just so much more streamlined and easy to configure from a 'geek but not a network engineer' perspective.

I use a mikrotik at home, and I always get a review from Claude after making config changes.

I actually used to be a network engineer (many decades and career reinventions ago), and I appreciate that Mikrotik exposes all of the layers and connections between them.

But damn if Claude doesn’t always find something I got wrong in the config.