It’s indeed unbelievably frustrating. Lost a good day on this trying to migrate a CAPsMANv1 setup to wifiwave2, before it was documented. Right, it should be considered alpha-stage so it is to be expected maybe. But I think the limitations should be made quite a bit more explicit still, under the wifiwave2 compatibility section, instead of expecting potential buyers or upgraders to sift through every parameter to see which features are not supported. An unqualified listing of e.g. Audience to me suggests full compatibility, especially given such a limitation is listed for the RB4011iGS+5HacQ2HnD.
And it’s not just CAPsMANv2 datapath that’s crippled on non-ax hardware, it’s also the client specific VLAN tagging through access list that’s limited in wifiwave2, which is at the heart of my IoT configuration (with device-specific keys and vlans, similar to the cases made in http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/wifiwave2-dynamic-vlan-support/162361/1 and http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/wifi-bridge-vlans-access-trunk-hybrid/165091/7).
While wireless offering has never been a particular strong suite for MikroTik, with these precedents and without a clear roadmap for wireless offering it’s hard to justify any investments here, because until wifiwave2 is feature complete it apparently is a complete lottery if your investment will ever receive these features. I’ve already written off the wAP ac’s I have as they will never receive wifiwave2 support and there’s no backwards compatibility from CAPsMANv2 (ok, they’re approaching 7 years of operations - that’s fair). But should I now also write off the Audiences I specifically bought last year with wifiwave2 compatibility in mind, because they will never receive vlan-tagging? And even if one wanted to invest here, MikroTik currently has no 802.11ax offerings in a formfactor that you would consider placing in a visible location (contrary the suggestion from the marketing material to mount a black box to a wall - which is typically of a lighter colour…).
Like the previous models, hAP ax² can be mounted vertically, horizontally, > or even on the wall
I’d like to +1 the statement made in another thread: