Inwas about to buy a pair of those, but then I saw the new mikrotik wifi 7 router (and probably upcoming access point) with thread radio.

Now every other brand is dead to me.

Interesting...

I have a Netgear WAX218, one of the last cheap business-class APs I could find that don't require a cloud service to manage. WAY better than the pro-sumer wifi routers I was running before in access point mode. I'll have to look into Zyxel offerings a bit more when I'm ready to replace my Netgear.

What benefit does 4x4 give you? I haven't seen a single client station with more than 1x1 or 2x2. Do you have so many clients that transmit concurrently?