I’ve been a pfSense dude for decades and it’s done the job quite well – I know it almost inside/out.
For the last few years I’ve run Unifi switches as they are the cheapest, best quality with an amazing UI.
The UI is very modern, love dark mode and has gone under a lot of improvements over the years. Latest network updates pushed me to change my personal stack to use the Unifi Dream Machine Pro as primary and it’s been working great.
I manage a lot of Unifi remotely as they make it easy. I’ve always been against cloud based solutions and promoted on-premise, but the hybrid solution is the way forward. IT departments are no longer in small to medium business, all the talent moved away. Unifi still allows on-premise everything with the ability to connect with the cloud or even lock that down so it’s not an option for more secure installations that require it.
Lately I’ve decided to forgo pfSense for the majority of our installations as the reliability, management and monitoring is just all built on right out of the box. I know pfSense is working on centralized management, but it was too late. Their UI got an update years ago which helped, but what pushed me over the edge was the bug of adding/modifying VLANS is still there – the one where it causes strange network issues of some VLAN’s just don’t work.
I may still use pfSense for some projects, but even Unifi has VPN wireguard management with site to site. My concern was the hardware, but there are enterprise equipment for sites which need it.
The HA capability is really nice, they make all the equipment without having to go outside their equipment offerings. Their equipment is quality, which is surprising with the same goes for their software and onboarding.
So, its Unifi.