And imagine how many person-hours went into making that remotely manageable, when unlike you, they control both ends of the connection!

I have my ISP’s hardware in dumb bridge mode because otherwise it won’t do what I want. And all the things they block or cripple? I firmly believe they were right to do so — few people want to do the weirdo stuff I want.

Like you, I set my parents’ setup to the generic defaults.