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Google tells me almost none of them run BSD and nothing I've ever heard of, much less seen.

But what do I know about it beyond that?

BSD is very popular for open router ecosystems, like pfSense, opnSense.

Some more commercial ones (pfsense is commercial) use it too like juniper junos.

We’re talking about consumer router/wireless APs here.

Any wireless AP is going to run Linux because BSD has had a tough time with anything better than 802.11n

Any router/switch is going to be running an ancient Linux kernel, which isn't patched. EdgeOS for example, won't be patched. The old Brocade/Ruckus switches I got here, won't have this patched. I'm holding my breath for my Unifi APs.

Last consumer router that ran any kind of BSD based firmware was probably Apple Airport and that was a long time ago.

could be intentional, even

> BSD never ever has security issues so kernel updates are never necessary?

Of course it does. But it was not affected in this particular case.