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No doubt about the quality, I already have some Routerboards around and will be purchasing some of their ceiling APs and a couple switches at the new house soon. All the worries come from the software being closed; I'm not painting Mikrotik evil, it's just that closed software and firmware are the ultimate place in which place spyware, especially where all software is FOSS. Routers and firewalls are the devices seeing every single piece of data on the network, thus is mandatory for them to be trustworthy, a quality the good reputation of their manufacturer can indeed suggest, but not guarantee.

> Routers and firewalls are the devices seeing every single piece of data on the network, thus is mandatory for them to be trustworthy

If you're transmitting (and trusting) plaintext data around, you have bigger issues that just the trustworthiness of your router.

I try to avoid proprietary OSes.

Not going to run that locked down crap on my network.