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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 agree that products like the Orbi and other mesh type system will work in the right home but each has it's set of limits. This can not be help in their design you must have a radio link between stations and a 2.4 ghz with a 5ghz band plus the electronics and antennas. All this takes processing time on each device that slows down the whole system and limits their range.