R7000P drops WIFI connections frequently

OMG I think this this fixed my router.

I've spent the last nine months trying to figure out what the heck was wrong with this thing. I didn't find this thread until this evening, after Googling "R7000P lemon". I had already ripped this POS off my network and reinstalling an old, slow Asus router, and even obtaining, through unbelievable difficulty, an RMA from Netgear. I didn't want to spend on the return shipping for a swap if the problem was hardware or an intractable firmware issue that Netgear would never resolve, and I was prepared to just move on and get a WiFi 6 router.

After reading this thread, I manually reflashed the firmware, reconfigured the router as an AP, turned off MU-MIMO and implicit beamforming, and pointed a few high-use devices (laptops, phones, Roku) to the 5 Ghz radio. I then simultaneously streamed YouTube and Netflix on multiple devices. Night and day difference! No disconnections, no throughput loss, nothing.

Maybe I won't do the RMA afterall. This R7000P is still a POS, but at least it seems to be working as it should now. I haven't put all of the devices back on, so I might need to update my findings after I revert the whole network.