"Thanks to a wide variety of mature commodity hardware choices, plus infinitely and perpetually updated open source router firmware, I'm happy to report that now everyone can have a great router."
No, not really. When's the last time his mother or mother-in-law flashed their router to Tomato or even just updated the stock firmware? I've been running Tomato on a WRT54G for years now, and DD-WRT before then, and I love it, but you can't expect a normal person to have any interest in that. They buy whatever is shiny and/or the Best Buy guy tells them is good.
No, not really. When's the last time his mother or mother-in-law flashed their router to Tomato or even just updated the stock firmware? I've been running Tomato on a WRT54G for years now, and DD-WRT before then, and I love it, but you can't expect a normal person to have any interest in that. They buy whatever is shiny and/or the Best Buy guy tells them is good.