I have had, installed, and used any number and brand of consumer grade routers. In general they do last for multiple years, but often enough each eventually develops some sort of 'issue' or just a general suspicion that the router is causing trouble for the connected computers.

Currently the nicest routers I have been using are the current Apple Extreme routers. Very stable, reasonable heat and rather nice configuration software. They do NOT use a web browser for configuration, but free apps are available for iOS, Mac and I presume Windows.

Modern router specs all around, but not third party router firmware friendly (as far as I know).