I think the Flint 3 will appeal to users who want/need the very latest WiFi standard.
Since I'm not one of those (I'm 100 percent wired)...It will most likely be a pass for me as well as I am happy on my OpenSource/OpenWRT Flint 2 running the latest snapshot.
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I wonder if Flint 3 is even going to run on the QSDK, perhaps it will be on OpenWifi's wlanap, which would be better if the kernel was a issue, but might introduce alot of other strange symptoms for sure.
Though Qualcomm is also not my preferred choice, compared to Mediatek, there is better support to it for openwrt because one of the maintainers works with Mediatek, so things such as hardware offloading and WED works fine.
With qualcomm however, it will be already hard to add support for a new soc platform, let alone supporting the propertairy things those socs can do (which is 0% chance), then you sit with a router with alot of strange symptoms and buggy behaviour like being said on the OpenWrt forum, and i believe Qualcomm is also extremely slow into releases, while Mediatek is faster, i believe they also bumped the SDK openwrts version but not sure if GL also uses the bumped one.
Sure the start with Flint 2 wasn't perfect, but thats not the fault imo of Mediatek, it is a brand new soc and basicly such new things need time to improve.
Since they patched the mtk_soc crashes and the time out messages with multicast /crashing over wifi, i have no complaints anymore, it works as a champ on 13 vlan networks even with multi psk 
I just hope they don't make the same mistake for flint 3 with being to early, i don't think alot of people use wifi 7 devices too, if i was them, i would use that time to see what Mediatek has in store since they don't seem to have much wifi 7 chips yet.
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Yes, QSDK will be used, and I thank God that it doesn't come with MediaTek, since when it arrived I have had problems and with the MT3000 too.
It’s confirmed to be Wi-Fi 7: Flint 3 (GL-BE9300) | Tri-band Wi-Fi 7 Home Router - GL.iNet
There are other Wi-Fi 7 “BE9300” routers on the market. It’ll most likely be 2.4/5/6 GHz.
It seems the Flint 3 has been added to the Beta Testing Program.
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Seems like only 2,5Gb ports 
