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I know I'm late to the party here.
Mikrotik is cheap and powerful. I wouldn't say it's easy tho.
I do a lot of live events. So the biggest thing for me is to be able to slap down a basic network and have it work. And then when some crazy request or problem comes along, I can completely reconfigure it into a managed network with internet access, multiple WiFis and VLANs, do static DNS assignments, firewall tricks, VPNs and all that.
Sure, a CRS isn't going to be as full bandwidth as a CCR, but it's rare that I need to do full throughput routing/filtering/queues. Most of the time, I need something to get out of trouble or provide a "good enough solution". Most commonly, it's bridging onto some venue WiFi and providing internet to a bunch of local computers that need to download files.