I need to replace my home/office router with something far more sophisticated. I was looking at OpenWrt (and the OpenWrt One device) but what I have seen have left me cold. I am a Linux guy and before I had my cheapo SOHO router, I utilized Linux and iptables (now obsoleted to nftables) to manage my home office network. I switched because nobody else here could manage it if I was unavailable. Now I need more sophistication and the choice was some $1K Cisco or OpenWrt, but OpenWrt seems like nothing more than the same Linux I have on one of my old Linux PC's sitting around. I need a justification to implement OpenWrt and even an OpenWrt One instead of a 2Ghz 2Gb Athlon+ with a bunch of NICs with a current bare bones Ubuntu server release, and my own nftables configuration.
A good justification would be GUI management of routing and firewall rules, but I have not been able to find that in the documentation, only command line stuff. CL stuff is OK for me, but not for anyone else in my household nor anyone they might bring in.
TIA
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