Please provide more 5GHZ wifi channel options - restricting to channels 36-48 is too limiting

I too live in an urban area and was looking to replace my AirPort Extreme gen 5 with a mesh setup, only to find that it was actually much slower due to poor choice of 5Ghz channels and other related factors.

If you think having only 36-48 to choose from (same as AirPort, as the coveted 52-100 can only be auto-selected through reboot lottery, at least on the Scandinavian version), imagine having no control at all which is true for Google WiFi and D-Link Covr. I use the former, and not only does it always auto select the worst possible channel (36) every time (some neighbor has 72% channel strength on 36 in my home), it also propagates 4 instances of itself on 36 as it does the ‘backhauling’ on its main channel. As a result, performance is less than 50% of the 5+ year old Apple base station.

So Netgear isn’t behind the curve in this regard, in fact they’re ahead by offering any channel control at all. I’m starting to think the answer isn’t any of these boutique-stylish mesh units, but one of those tacky looking black/red gaming routers with a hundred antennas — I’m sure those allow for some borderline illegal custom settings that us city folk need to elbow our way through the crowded airwaves...