Is it certified by FSF's RYF (Respect your Freedom) program?

Personally I am only going to be interested in running openwrt on a router of this sort, unless it has something extra-special going on or if it is a 'enterprise' grade switch running something like 'cumulus linux'.

Does OpenWRT or Cumulus Linux themselves even meet the definition of 'free software that respects your freedoms' under the FSF's definitions? I really doubt it.

So is RYF going to be something that I consider highly important or relevant? No, of course not. And I don't think most people here will consider it that relevant. It's a 'nice to have' thing, not a requirement. RYF is a nice thing, but it is too narrow in scope and divergent goals from most people means that it's not really that useful as a certification for most people.

If you are a hard-core FSF-type then, yeah sure, it matters to you. But for most people it is probably never going to be that important despite the effort FSF puts into it.