For now the upcoming routers will still be on the Qualcomm chips, but moving away from the QSDK, so they will be more up to date
Going back to MediaTek could be interesting for the future, probably not this year though. More chipsets will be released by then hopefully to have some more options.
Here are some upcoming products you can take a look at:
My only complaint about the travel router (Puli / Mundi) is no optional external antenna for better throughput on both LTE / WiFi. Seems it’s either battery and integrated, or external and wall power.
He has a video where he shows how the modem is in a module. These are like $1000, but here’s the video where he starts talking the modem being modular (starting at 603 seconds).
Supporting actual standards like WiFi 6 E, BT 5.2 and what ever the standard by internet by mobile and sim card is, will be great. Can be its LTE or what ever. The WiFi 6 and BT 5.2 are supported p.e. by Intel AX 210 card.