I certainly don't need Apple. My primary home router is a virtual machine running on a Proxmox cluster, and my house is serviced by three sub-$30 Netgear wifi 5 access points running OpenWRT with 802.11r fast transition on a wired backhaul.
I can't recommend any of that to my non-techy friends or family. I can't recommend Ruckus, either, as it's about an order of magnitude too expensive. Ditto for the other "prosumer" vendors.
