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Where do you travel that you need wifi? I’ve been getting SIM cards for over a decade, now even eSIMs are cheap enough for casual use.
Changing countries a lot reduces this option a bit. I’m sure I could find a good all Europe card, but I need my number for work calls.
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What is the benefit of this over, for example, an iPhone hotspot?
An iPhone can't bridge a wifi network. So you need something like a travel router to share a wifi connection.
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Why do you think this would be difficult to do using openwrt? Wouldn't you just set up the travel router to have the same ssid and password as your home network and configure a wireguard tunnel from the travel router to your home network (that is if you want to be in your home network)
Because manually configuring wireguard tunnels on random devices is a simple task for most people lol. Unifi’s whole stack is all about making powerful tools easier to use for people who don’t want to fuck around with networking.
I never travel without my GL-AXT1800. Saved me so many times: https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-axt1800/ I’m actually on it right now.
What advantage does this have over the cheaper UniFi router in the OP?
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How do you handle captive portals in hotels ?
Connect on your phone or other device. Connect to travel router. Clone the mac address of your device. Connect router to wifi. Adjust device to not auto login. Good to go.
Once the internet is active, the GL.iNet router will then re-enable things like VPN and AdGuard Home.
Since these devices are OpenWrt underneath with a pretier ui, I presume this is all possible on any OpenWrt device.