Thanks to amarok for create this thread, i got motivated to upgrades my 3 LibreCMC Routers from Gnu Linux v4.14 to v6.6, API v1 to API v3 WG, Etc.
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I’m now leaning toward just buying a newer Asus router compatible with Asus-MerlinWRT again, to keep things simple and familiar, and to preserve present functionalities/setup.
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If it ain’t broke.
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Planned obsolescence wins, unfortunately. 
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If you live in Europe, I really like my Turris router. It comes with a modified version of OpenWRT out of the box which is was the primary reason why I bought it. Sure there are some wifi chip blobs, but otherwise it’s fully open source. Has some cool additional features on top of standard OpenWRT too, some that are really nice and some that are a little bit gimmicky but you don’t need to have those enabled. The only drawback IMO is that it’s usually a year or two behind the official OpenWRT upstream (probably because they have so many additional features), but that’s not too bad.
I have 3 Turris Mox connected together with ethernet. One “master” with an additional fiber module for WAN and then the other two as extenders with PoE (I don’t trust mesh networks).
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They also sell to other countries, including the U.S., where I am located. And I’ve already confirmed that the VAT is removed when shipping to the U.S. (We pay U.S. local tax instead, based on the delivery address.)
I certainly like this router as a concept.