Tired of problems with RAX80; options for its second life?

I also went through the nightmare that is the RAX80 for almost six months and finally threw in the towel and went back to an Asus router. I sold the RAX80 on Craigslist for decent money and never heard back from the buyer so I'm assuming he's blissfully unaware of its issues.

That being said the Asus routers have almost as many problems as Netgear with funky firmware updates they send out. All of their newer AX routers have some sort of issue and the Zen WiFi system is a joke. At least you have WRT Merlin you can use to fix a lot of the problems.

A few weeks ago I had a friend who wanted an RAX45 from Costco when I was there so I bought it and we set it up and it worked great, not a single issue with setup, firmware updates, etc.  It runs better than the Asus RT-AX58U I had set up so I bit the bullet, downed two shots of Jack and ordered a RAX50 on sale at Amazon for $229.00. 

So far a night and day experience different than the RAX80. Easy setup, covers 2000 sq. ft. at full speeds, AX devices connect fine, wired devices no issues, the GUI is still a painfully slow process but I haven't even opened it for about three weeks now. Handles 30-35 clients easily with do drops or slowdowns. One of better routers I've owned so far so I know Netgear can make a good router, finding which one is the issue.