the thing with openwrt is that you have the freedom to fuck it up, which is exactly what tends to happen to people who know enough to come up with the idea of installing a different OS on their router.
So you really should make sure that you’ll be able to deal with it when you eventually fuck something up because you wanted to configure the blinking pattern of the LEDs or whatever.

Though to be fair openwrt makes it fairly easy to back up configurations and just reinstall everything from scratch

well let’s not get pedantic

i’m fairly convinced that if you were teleported to a random farming community anywhere and anywhen on earth, they’d be concerned but default to housing you for like a week at least and by the time you establish basic communication your fate will be consigned to storytelling until the day you die.

Because life back then was fucking boring as shit and any modern person could probably make the best storytellers of the day suicidal by ineptly explaining the plot of the first movie that comes to mind.

Sing some Queen or whatever and the village will go