Why? Because this is the package required to connect to the internet. Imagine having to download this small package to connect to the internet, but you have to have internet first? That seems unintuitive. Imagine having to download some luci-wan-files to be able to connect to the internet first.
The official documentation already contains a section that refers to this:
If the intent is to configure the router for an LTE connection, a custom image can easily be created with all the packages deemed useful/necessary.
That said, the person could use the router for other configurations (WAN via Ethernet, dump-AP, etc.)
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Temp configure your device to be a wireless client to an upstream wifi network ?
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I already do that but it's just unneccessary. This time I just copy the config anyway, but why this much hassle? Lately I just add luci-proto-ncm to firmware selector and compile like that. But this time that compiler thing is down. Way too much hassle for a few kb s of this package..
Why does people use this 4G router for then? To make a sandwitch? Please, obviously people use this for this purpose. %99 of them do this way.