> I know I'm a strange fellow, but I am having a hard time to understand why consumer grade routers are such garbage.
i work at a contract engineering firm which employs a lot of folks who've stuffed linux into embedded products (frequently ones expensive enough that if you have to ask the price, you can't afford it), though not afaik any routers.
in general:
this kind of work is done by firmware engineers who were hired because they had "linux" on their resume. they have no networking experience, and know less about security. to the extent that the project manager is aware that security is a thing, they assume any "technical" person is as good as any other on the subject. how the devices will be kept up to date is not discussed until right before the software is delivered (if ever).
i work at a contract engineering firm which employs a lot of folks who've stuffed linux into embedded products (frequently ones expensive enough that if you have to ask the price, you can't afford it), though not afaik any routers.
in general:
this kind of work is done by firmware engineers who were hired because they had "linux" on their resume. they have no networking experience, and know less about security. to the extent that the project manager is aware that security is a thing, they assume any "technical" person is as good as any other on the subject. how the devices will be kept up to date is not discussed until right before the software is delivered (if ever).