I'm mostly of the opposite view, I prefer the routing on MXs.  🙂   It's because a lot of the features only work when the MX is used as the default gateway, such as client group policies (which are applied based on MAC address).   Also if you use a non-Meraki L3 switch you will get poor analytics out of the dashboard because nothing in Meraki land will be able to see the client's MAC address to perform tracking.  No client usage info.  No traffic analytics.  No clicking on a client to look at their traffic patterns.  No client connectivity graphs.  Limited AI assisted fault detection.   It's like losing half of the Meraki dashboard functionality you paid for. ... View more