@vonxylofon
@lemmy.worldI work in documentation. We aren't allowed to use words like "simple" or "easy" precisely for this reason.
As a parent, I thought I had an idea. Nope, still surprised. And I wanted the kid and have means to support them.
Recent. cAP AC (1yo) and cAP lite (3yo) are still running in my household, and RB4011iGS+RM (3yo) was until about a month ago.
What they say, plus I wouldn't recommend Mikrotik HW, which I went with based on Reddit recommendations for much the same use case as yours. Pretty clunky to set up, had to debug some idiosyncracies with the help of the forums, their wireless gear is slow, and it all runs hot AF.