You didn't specify what country you're buying from, what $200 in your local currency is, whether or not you need Wi-Fi6, how much space you're trying to cover with the router/AP, etc., and it's not 100% clear from your Reddit profile/posts either (probably a good thing though). Thus, I can't make any country-specific recommendations, because not everything is available globally - however, look for something that can run OpenWRT reliably (because it probably already is running some fork of DD-WRT already if it comes from some companies):
You didn't specify what country you're buying from, what $200 in your local currency is, whether or not you need Wi-Fi6, how much space you're trying to cover with the router/AP, etc., and it's not 100% clear from your Reddit profile/posts either (probably a good thing though). Thus, I can't make any country-specific recommendations, because not everything is available globally - however, look for something that can run OpenWRT reliably (because it probably already is running some fork of DD-WRT already if it comes from some companies):
https://openwrt.org/toh/views/toh_available_16128?dataflt%5BSupported+Current+Rel_releasepage*%7E%5D=23.05.0&dataflt%5BWLAN+5.0GHz*%7E%5D=%09a%2Fn%2Fac%2Fax&dataflt%5BBrand*%7E%5D=