I still like my EDUP 2960 2.4G/5G WiFi-6 - ramips/mt7621
Around 25..30$ on Ali ... Comes with some OpenWRT "clone" but just load it with the "SIM SIMAX1800T" "Official" 24.10.2 (sysupgrade)
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007298039666.html?
Only caveat is that the Official OpenWRT (SIM SIMAX) uses wrong led GPIO's , aka. you loose the led.
And It swaps LAN1 & LAN3 , so physical lan1 is Owrt-lan3 , and 3 is 1.
A patch has been made for the defects, but "we" have had no luck getting a developer to "bite" ... Aka make an EDUP 2960 specific build w. the patch applied.
If you can live wo. the led , and the lan ports reversed , then it's a nice cheap router/ap