It's all relative. Try OpenWRT if you want something truly unstructured. As much as I like (and still use) it for APs I switched to OPNsense eight years ago and never looked back.
A silly Question, is there a better alternative to pfsense for home use?
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I'm sure it's actually fine. It's just the phrasing of "cleaner, more modern interface" brings to mind what Microsoft has done to the Windows UI.
Most UI "upgrades" are like cosmetic surgery: a little bit can do wonders, but too much and it's even worse than when you started.
I still use OpenWRT for routing. Linux tends to have better driver compatibility, performance is good, virtualizes well.
My one complaint is that I don't do major upgrades in-place (I do a fresh image and copy configs over, then swap the network interfaces over to the new VM), since historically that wasn't a thing, but I believe it has improved in that regard.