The common sentiment is that Mikrotik is the gold standard for reliability and, not talking about the terrible UI, you're considered an Adult in networking if you choose to manually configure individual interfaces to do basic things, and it 'just works'

Except when it doesn't, and you have to stop your day job to troubleshoot your home network because an interface literally vanishes overnight, when you hadn't touched the router in months.

Then there's the wifi radio settings and the terrible CAPman, where I had to Google radio frequency settings and channel configuration (why?). In any case what's this power good for? what's a use case that you want to give up ease of use and central management for configuration power?

I'm moving to all Ubiquiti stuff, and so far I love the management tooling that already alerts me and shows me latency stats and packet drops on my network in a status page, including a log. I love that I can use the app to connect my phone to an IPSEC tunnel at home, that I can quickly connect sites.

Mikrotik's winbox and web configuration UI seem like they were written by lone developers in basements who never interacted with humans.