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The question is would you buy it at a higher price point, like say $300?

Yup. There's a lot of products or software I'd pay a lot more for if they were open. But I understand I'm in the extreme minority.

Absolutely. I actually have 2 >$200 routers that I use at home. I bought them specifically because I could put pfsense on them.

What's the hardware?

I don't know about the parent comment but you can run pfsense.org on a 120 pcengines board.