Agreed. Almost. I was trying to find the recent article that covered this (Ars?). FCC wanted the radio locked down, not the router. Manufacturers used this as cover to lock the router. But FCC was warned repeatedly that manufacturers would do precisely this. So the FCC isn’t totally blameless, despite doing what is mostly a good thing.
One of the commenters brought up the weather radar part, which was fascinating. Notice how there is a gap in the 5 MHz channel numbers? That’s the radar band. Seems 3rd part wifi software sometimes re-enables these. The picture the commentator posted showed the effect beautifully. Made a nice supplement to the article.
