I agree with the LEDE devs: OpenWRT should support commodity routers. One big advantage of the LEDE/OpenWRT project is that it allows me to take cheap commodity hardware and get enterprise-grade reliability and features. This router is probably the most popular router in the world. The factory firmware supports a IPv6 and a Web UI and even has a really cool mobile app. I can't think of a technical reason OpenWRT can't support it. OpenWRT's reluctance to support 4/32 seems to be coming from a place of economic privilege. The majority of the world's population lives in Asia, Africa, and South America and buying a better router isn't an option. Millions of people got their 4/32 routers from their ISPs.
We are hiring to maintain a fork of OpenWRT that supports 4/32 devices. Apply here:
The issues with running on 4/32 devices are not imaginary... they are outlined in detail here https://openwrt.org/supported_devices/openwrt_on_432_devices
Even if you can squeeze everything needed into 4mb of flash, will you still have enough space left to maintain config settings, or ram to run everything?
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Shure. Doing this for simple hotspots, for example. Including coova-chilli, which needs quite some RAM during startup. The openwrt-emphasis on >4/32 devices I consider a bit "elitaer". Or deficiency of know-how.
I imagine all that would be needed is to maintain LEDE 17.01 and update kernels.
already started some work independent from the job 
Mmmh, something seems up with that link:
"
Access Denied
while trying to load /t/id_for/testing-lede-17-01-security-backports-for-432-devices
Something went wrong."
link fixed 
- thanks for the heads up
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