Why is creating a guest wifi so much work?

Installing and Using OpenWrt
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https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/wifi/guestwifi/configuration_webinterface

I was able to follow these instructions (even though some of the screenshots were outdated) and I have a guest wifi working.

But why did I have to do so much work in the first place? Why can't OpenWRT have a simple "Enable Guest WiFi" option that does all this work one one step? The only thing I might want to configure is the range of IP addresses on the 192.168.2.x network and maybe the lease time. But everything else should have been set up by default.

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OpenWrt is primarily aimed at power users.

Exposing low level config gives greater flexibility, for example you can have dozens of guest/non-guest networks with fine grained firewall rules instead of just a few.

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The screenshots were taken from version 23.05.5.

I haven't used 24.10 yet. Does LuCI look different there?

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Maybe different skin used and causes confusion?

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