Dear Gl-iNet,
Your travel routers are getting bigger and bigger! Not everyone needs the fastest and latest / greatest in wifi specs. The ax1800 and axt are now what one would consider small HOME routers.
The slate has always been a TRAVEL router but it has gotten bigger and bigger...
Slate: 100 x 68 x 24mm - volume 163200 cubic mm, weight: 86g Slate Plus: 118 x 84 x 33mm - volume 327096 cubic mm, weight: 181g Slate AX: 125 x 82 x 36mm - volume 369000 cubic mm, weight: 245g Slate 7: 130 × 91 × 34mm - volume 402220 cubic mm, weight: 295g
Also why are 2025 travel product still coming with USB-A ports???
For the original fan base please give us an ultra thin and ultra compact Shadow 2 x Puli Hybrid please 
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As much as I love my Deeper Connect Air - it doesn't have ethernet. And their UI is not the same as your lovely OpenWRT based one. But wow, the thinnest most portable router I've ever owned.
Second to that is the MicroTik MAP Lite.
Also tiny! Some photos below for comparison with your current smallest routers (MicroTik MAP Lite, TP Link, Gl-iNet Mango and Shadow left to right).
Some Desired Specs:
1xUSB C for Power In
1xUSB C for Power Out / Charge Through and Tethering.
Ethernet Port
Micro SD / SIM card
Battery
Appreciate making a device as thin as 11mm (MikroTik MAP Lite i.e. thickness of ethernet port) with all of the above specs will be quite hard - but a device with this kind of footprint (ZTE 5G Router) would be dreamy!
I would certainly pay good money for some hybrid of the above mentioned