openwrt is surely lacking in many aspects, but all the points you brought forward also apply to the manufacturer firmware but those are even less user friendly and cannot be modified.
there are a lot of open and closed firmware projects building upon openwrt
> but all the points you brought forward also apply to the manufacturer firmware but those are even less user friendly and cannot be modified.
That's more than a reach of a claim. All manufacturer firmware are buggy with poor security? That's very obviously false. With closed manufacturers the history is that it's a mixed bag, not a blanket. Some are excellent, some are very poor.
Openwrt has been mediocre and all the negatives about it do not equally apply to all closed manufacturer firmware.
there are a lot of open and closed firmware projects building upon openwrt