I tend to take reviews with a grain of salt for several reasons:
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All the devices are running MediaTek cpu's and radios, the main distinction between them is the firmware. Firmware which you will be replacing with OpenWrt.
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It is usually not clear that poor reviews have trouble shoot channel congestion etc.
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Some less than ethical companies pay for good reviews on their products and even less ethical companies smear the competition - kinda like US politics
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Netgear/Xiaomi devices need a special app to load OpenWrt.
I would post in the WR1300 thread to see if any one running OpenWrt has performance issues.