MediaTek MT7921

Have you tried them further than "I don't trust MediaTek"? I've had sequentially an Intel and an AMD ThinkPad for work (I killed the first one). Turns out, the wifi is much much better on the AMD one with the MediaTek chipset than on the Intel one with the Intel chipset. On the latter, I had very frequent disconnects from the network (severals per hour) along with atrocious latency even on 5GHz. And by atrocious latency, I mean atrocious as in "it is more than noticeable when using ssh". The current one has been rock solid for the past two or three years. So yeah, I guess it really depends. The specific chipset I have is a MT7921 and I'm running Linux, YMMV. And it also may depend on the laptop itself.

I can only speak for myself here, but I'm running a MediaTek MT7921 on Fedora 37, I picked it up on eBay for £12 and its been spot on. Unlike my Intel AX210 I can actually get a full gigabit down sat next to my router.