An important distinction to make! It would be very odd (and telling) if they sold a device today knowing they will make it obsolete in 15 months.
I have no experience at all wit this brand, I dipped my toes in cheaply and will see how this device behaves. I assume CVE's (if any) will be patched and I see the beta firmware is from December 2024. I don't mind running older kernels/software as long as it's safe and secure.
As an aside I bought a brand new cheap Zyxel wifi6 router for testing, it's on kernel 3.x not even kidding but it works great and is supported. The what I call Debian approach doesn't have to be bad as long as security and severe bugs get patched and back ported.
I do hope we'll see some more movement in getting OpenWrt on it at some point, the commit is promising even though it may mean nothing in the end. Guess it's a glass half full or half empty situation.
Amazon Germany shifts at least 200 of these a month. I don't know if this number is for all Amazon sites or just the German one. Still 200 units sold a month should be a nice push to keep this device interesting now and in the future.
With the current voucher it's not too bad. According to this items pricing history they either sell it around 37 euro without a voucher or around 43 with a voucher. In the end you always pay the same, some people will feel better when they get a 7 euro discount. Marketing is wonderful lol.
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