[cykros]

They have at least added mesh wifi, but yes, the adoption pick up has been fairly slow except in do or die protest scenarios.

It is handy if you're on a plane with someone but your seats are separated because you didn't want to pay an extra $50 to sit next to each other though.

[londons_explore]

They should add long range WiFi. For example the Espressif long range WiFi protocol (esp-now lr) should get around 2km of range.

With effort, various exploitable WiFi chipsets could probably have support added too. 2km of range makes mesh networking possible even with very low user densities, especially if combined with store-and-forward.

And then there is always the possibility of a hardware dongle with LoRA with 10km range.