[eternityforest]

There's starting to be off the shelf Meshtastic hardware, otherwise I'd agree.

Actually using custom hardware or soft is not something I consider a reasonable choice, basically ever, unless there's no off the shelf alternative, or I'm specifically being paid to create said off the shelf alternative.

CB has a bit better range but otherwise I'd mostly agree.

In practice FRS is the only thing I ever actually use besides checking in at the weekly net with a Baofeng, it's just the standard everywhere, even for small scale commerical stuff, and it's what everyone I know already has.