I am alive.
In my ignorance at the time when I made this thread, I thought I had done something wrong.
Well, it turns out I didn't do anything wrong, it's just that I was expecting a different outcome when I flashed pure Openwrt onto my devices.
Openwrt works flawlessly on these devices, and is definitely superior in in several ways, it's just that it's not as user friendly compared to the way Gl-inet has implented their GUI and setup.
These days I am pretty much a router and networking wiz and so I don't have any issues.
I can send the files that were linked to me for anyone who needs them, but it is probably better to get these directly from the mods and staff here at Gl-inet via DM.