Those are good points, but Ubiquiti lost me at centralized, private management of my network devices. Someone might, you know, abuse that; plus, I'm not in control of what's on my device.
I’d never use Ubiquiti’s switches, routers, etc. There are great alternatives there. But when I went to replace my APs earlier this year I still could not find anything less shady that still did what I needed.
Is there an alternative that does PoE w/ multiple APs that hand-off well? And decent hardware…
TP-Link has a similar offering but with similar problems.
OpenWRT on [consumer gear] is not an answer here. More effort goes into the plastic than the hardware. Never dealing with cheap NICs, bad SoCs, inadequate memory, garbage drivers, etc. again.
With that said I'm moving away from Ubiquity after years of broken pointless updates, years long outstanding bugs, and after this thread obvious massive lacking security.
I just only turn my controller on when I’m working now and occasionally have to re-adopt.
And alternatives likely have similar issues. It’s what naturally occurs when small businesses get large, and especially when companies go from embedded to SaaS development.