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LAN is all 10Gbps of course, on 1Gbps WAN links.

pfSense takes care of the 元 routing, inter-VLAN firewalling, LAN-WAN firewalling, and WAN failover coordinator. My ears! My homelab is based on a Cisco 350X series stack as backbone, mikrotik distribution switches, and pfSense as FW/元 Router in a ESXi cluster (on Xeon D). Had a couple of brocade ICX switches for a while. Capable 元 routers are very expensive, and often do not do exactly what you want.

In homelab situations (what you seem to be after), firewalling and VLAN routing requirements often mix. What type of routing do you need and what is the throughput and latency that you need? And do you need firewalling as well? If you want to keep cost down and do not need ultra high speed and ultra low latency 元 routing between VLANs or LAN-WAN, I suggest you take a managed switch for the L2 stuff, and use a software 元 router (+firewall) in a VM.