Re: Just, why!?
It's not like the kids needs the mothership, but it doesn't make it easy to avoid the mothership.
I upgraded my home with a gateway, wifi and switch - and it threw me as I was used to configuring devices separately - Ubiquiti kit was the first that 'preferred' to be configured as a collective.
From a management pov , it makes it simple and actually v.good.
They do have a cloud key service, but personally thought it was a joke to pay £80+ for a simple bit of software...so I put it on my raspberry pi and runs quite happily.