Extending WiFi range

It's probably the same one. I didn't download it until a few weeks ago because I had not opened the app in many months. It prompted me to do it when I opened the app. I have had not issues, but it could be that they fixed the bugs in the time between when you downloaded and I did.

I was not really a Netgear fan before I got the Orbi, but it works for me. That being said, for all I know there are better Mesh systems out there made by others. I just know Mesh is the way to go.
Absolutely. 100%

So far the TP link is as good or better than Orbi for a third of what I paid back then for the Orbi. I don't even know what Orbi costs now.