I use $50 routers in bridge mode that can work three rooms away - but they have to be hard wired

The back-haul (private and independently routed) dedicated communication between the Router and the Satellite(s) creates a conduit that rivals a hard Ethernet wired path from one end of my operational 'space' to the other.

So if you wanted a standard setup with multiple hard-wired APs they would probably do OK.

The Orbi app can actually be worse than a hard-wired setup attempt even with the inclusion of the QR code functionality - which creates a poor customer experience - yet neither method is smooth when attempting to initialize the system as an AP (access point) arrangement out-of-the-box.

Other times they won't work at all with out rebooting (even though other devices hard wired to the satellites' LAN ports continue to work