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OpenWRT gets a lot of love around here, incorrectly.
If you are willing to flash custom software to a router you bought for that purpose, you may as well just pick the better option and put pfSense or (better) OPNsense on a mini PC with two Ethernet ports.
The router running OpenWRT will usually be a lot less power hungry than a mini PC, ethernet switch and access point.
That really depends. And whether or not it matters at all depends on the cost of electricity where OP is.
Its high everywhere.
It is absolutely not.
I think the added benefit of an OpenWRT router is, you get 3 more ports (for your TV, Playstation and PC), plus a Wifi network. And it's really hard to break it. But a MiniPC with OPNsense, of course will be more powerful. And some more advanced things have been notoriously difficult to set up in OpenWRT, maybe OPNsense does it a bit better.
if you have an uplink of 1 Gbit/s or less, you can easily solve the problem of ports by purchasing a switch for $3. By the way, there is a mini PC with 4/6/8 ports and even with optical fiber.
and in general, if topic starter build own server, he can just build a router out of it too. the set of programs is not very large: kea-dhcp, radvd, iptables. that's all. for WiFi, you will need a compatible card in the server or a separate access point like ubiquity.
Yup, it's when you want to get above the 1Gbps speeds that the switches tend to get expensive. That and whether they are managed with VLAN's or not.