If we wanted secure products, we wouldn't ban devices. We'd mandate they open their firmware to audits.

It'd be great if open firmware could be commercially viable. Finding a business model is hard.

The OpenWRT One [1] sponsored by the Software Conservancy [2] and manufactured by Banana Pi [3] works lovely.

[1] https://openwrt.org/toh/openwrt/one

[2] https://sfconservancy.org/activities/openwrt-one.html

[3] https://docs.banana-pi.org/en/OpenWRT-One/BananaPi_OpenWRT-O...

[OpenWrt Wiki] OpenWrt One

Just declare that any router that can be flashed to OpenWRT without loss of functionality is allowed to be imported.