It's pretty decently deployed as far as I'm aware and I've yet to find anything that is in the same class without getting into some of the more esoteric modulation schemes(although LoRA is pretty impressive on it's own, for instance the different spread factors are orthogonal so you can have multiple devices transmitting at the same time without colliding if they use different coding rates).
I've found the AT modem command[3] based modules[1][2] to be fairly drop-in and usable, I was even able to pair via BT on my phone and use the BT serial TTY to send/recv without any specific software. It's pretty hard to beat ~$20 modules that you can just drop in and run over UART.
Keep in mind these are mostly for point-to-point although if I remember correctly you can also configure them for a standard LoRA deployment through that command interface as well.
[1] https://store.rakwireless.com/products/rak4200-evaluation-bo...
[2] https://www.seeedstudio.com/LoRa-E5-mini-STM32WLE5JC-p-4869....
[3] https://docs.rakwireless.com/Product-Categories/WisDuo/RAK42...
I was totally content to accept that once I saw how well it solved my problem. WiFi has a clear cut path to getting what you want accomplished which seems great from the outset, but is totally useless if it’s not reliable. I’ve found that WiFi-based projects generally need to be really, really close to an access point to be properly reliable.
As another comment mentioned though there are probably plenty of ways I could mitigate these problems, so it’s as much an issue with me trying to use a technology wrong as it is a hard limitation of WiFi.