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Other mesh networks such as Eero and soon Luma support hard wiring your sattelites. I think its extremely important Netgear Orbi does the same. Especially for those of us who can.
First you need to see a need for it may be in the works under another model number how knows they have the interner port and lan ports on the base station but only lan ports on the satelitte on this serials. The next serials may have a backhaul and maybe some of the other features asked for. They could build the voice command right in to the router so only one device instead of two. Just have to look at new routers they are putting out now and you may get a idea of what is coming for the future Orbi.