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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.
I believe the people who design it wanted to true wired free option but forget that there needs to be back connection path if the wifi does not work in one area as anyone who tried to set there own router and get the best possible coverage knows no house or apartment is the same. Great on paper but always does not work in the real world.
But I also believe that backhaul is maybe in works the version issue of the Orbi so other then a firmware patch for this current issue of the Orbi no real hardware ready answer is possible they have to rewrite the codes that control the ports and I am sure the first issue would be a buggy.
Another way would to add the link in the form of a power lan adopter feature made rite in the Orbi sure the power supply would have to live in the router but with enough shielding the power supply and router electronics it would work Apple does it the question how much rf noise would the switch mode power supply make normally a think plastic shield with metalize firm is on must power supplies in of equipement.