I use a Beryl as a travel router (connects to Hotel or Plane Wifi, you authenticate the captive portal, then it creates a separate wifi network and opens a VPN tunnel). It's such a great little device for less than $100 and allows me to keep things a bit more secure, avoid config for each device, and on planes it allows us to split a higher capacity plan. All OpenWRT
While this and other GL.iNet devices use OpenWRT (with their own custom UI/frontend), they don't contribute to the OpenWRT project in terms of code or funding, many of their devices are incompatible with mainline OpenWRT releases, and software updates are few and far between.
I have one of these myself, they're handy devices, but I wouldn't go and recommend them as good OpenWRT devices.
I would love to buy into OpenWRT but I need a mesh router due to the size of my house. Do you know of the recommended hardware? I couldn't find anything the last time I searched a year or two ago