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by ssl-3 646 days ago
It has been many years since I've run any version of Tomato on anything, so I won't guess about the present state of that.

But I think I can answer your question.

These days, at least at home, I run OpenWRT on a Pi 4 (because it was cheap at the time).

I use its web interface for the usual mundane poking and prodding.

And when I want something special, I just add a simple startup script like I would have done on any other Linux box back when init systems were plain and dumb.

This same thing should also work on any other OpenWRT installation that has a writeable filesystem (instead of, eg, SquashFS).

And no, I don't think you are thinking of this wrong as a concept. It's a home network and not enterprise, and at the end of the day these things are all just Linux machines with a nice GUI. I think it is totally cromulent to mold them to your will.