Comment by londons_explore

All 'boring' packets are hardware switched/routed with no CPU involvement in everything bigger than your home cable router.

For both switched and routed networks it's possible to build hardware that can route at the same speed as the ports, so in 2024 performance isn't really a reason to choose switched or routed.

Cost might be though - I believe that for the same number of gigabits, hardware sold as a switch is substantially cheaper.