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In what sense?
IIRC, OpenWRT tends to support older hardware. I once bought new hardware to run it, so I know that it's been out there, but if you want something to run OpenWRT and aren't too fussed about having the latest hardware, you can probably grab something off eBay or something, especially if what you care about isn't the WiFi side of things, where things have changed over time. Might be possible to run a USB WiFi adapter or something, if you want the latest WiFi protocol.
Pretty much, if you're talking Internet-facing stuff. I mean, you might still want updates for, I dunno, NTP updates or something where the router talks to the Internet. And if it's doing WiFi and there's some vulnerability associated with that, theoretically you could be attacked locally. In general, I wouldn't worry too much. There are probably a ton of unsupported, unupdated Internet of Things devices on LANs all over the place, so shrugs. It'd be nice to have maintenance and security updates for everything, but in practice, there's probably a lot of stuff that is always going to be unmaintained on most LANs. Smart TVs, printers, whatever. Maybe we should change that, but as things stand, kinda the norm.
OpenWRT does support more recent hardware if you know what you are looking for
When I got whatever it was that I got new...I think an Asus device...that I used, I think that I had to order it online, and it sounds like OP was shopping brick-and-mortar. I dunno if he'd be able to find it brick-and-mortar.