Don’t worry, I haven’t taken it any personal. I am here for the technical part 
(I hope this emoticon is placed right … Social interaction is not my strong suite.)
I think they are very interesting in improving. As example, see the RV discussion: Collecting ideas for making a wireless RV router - #54 by panpan
But to make it more leisure (in my personal opinion, don’t need to fit with the company opinion) they need to get less feature and more plain.
One huge German router vendor is broad used, and fits in 80% of the use cases. So easy and good, that CEO and CTO thinks this is as good as company router as well.
But if you’d like to
- add a 3rd party router (MESH)
- a VLAN
- a LDAP access control
- a DMZ
you are lost. They are claiming VLAN is not needed, they have a very performant MESH (true, but proprietary), they have a ‘Extended Host’ as DMZ and nobody wants to administrate a LDAP at home …
I do like the flexibility GL-Inet provides to me. Even if I constantly break the Admin Panel, I am free to play around with the OpenWRT Packages, as I like.
At the moment I try to add a ‘Federated AD/Edge Server’, to use my LDAP rules on the go, without brake the security when my luggage is lost. I have not success so far, but I have the freedom to try it.
I honestly believe it is a good thing it does not go personal here.