Sounds like netgear routers are now 100% confirmed to be compromised with backdoors instead of just being probable

Because old kindles are about to show up on ebay for like $10-20 - how much do those open alternatives cost? They’ll be useless bricks to a lot of people - some will figure out how to use them in different ways, some will throw them away, and some will try to sell them for dirt cheap.

I also appreciate the increased security

This hasn’t been true for a long, long time. Mac was only ever more secure than windows because not enough people used them to make them worthwhile attack vectors. Nowadays, iOS sees just as many vulnerabilities as every other popular OS.