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I just get a small x86 box and then buy stand alone POE access points for wifi.

Same. NixOS with some cheap 2.5G ethernet cards and a ubiquiti AP.

Power draw is pretty low and I don't have to deal with yet another ecosystem.

Don't misunderstand me, I've used OpenWRT on many things including an original WRTgl, but I'd rather something boring these days.