When can we expect a WiFi 6E/6ghz supporting travel router from GL iNet?

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I have multiple generations of GL iNet travel routers (including the Slate AX) and have long liked using them, but I have multiple computers now which support WiFi 6E/6ghz, but the routers I have, and the routers GL iNet currently sells, only supports either upto WiFi 6 (AX), or WiFi 7 (..so it disappointed me that the Slate 7 didn’t offer this!).

Neither of these options allow me to get the potential 2400mbps speeds that WiFi6E offers (but half that at 1200mbps), so that is a huge difference obviously.

The machines are laptops, so do not have the option of updating to WiFi 7 to get the speed increases 7 brings, and they are both new machines, so ones that I expect to use for years.

Given that there are loads of laptops, phones and tablets on the market that only support upto 6E (but not 7, and never will), this is a large primarily untapped market, especially for travel routers (TP Link does have a good desktop one, but its far from travel-friendly, there is the Nighthawk but that’s far from affordable, and there’s a few others, but that’s it as best I can tell right now!).

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How exactly are you going to use the full wifi bandwidth on a wifi router?? It’s a “travel” router. No hotel has that kind of speeds.

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I am relatively nomadic, so it is often used with home-based connections (just not the one home, but various, so I typically use the WAN port to bridge to the house’s router directly), and the bandwidth isn’t utilised purely by devices downloading or uploading over the Internet, but also used as a part of the local network where I do stream video, copy media files between machines, etc…so I have very much experienced bandwidth limitations in that area for those operations.