Hi Chrizee,
Thanks for the detailed post.
For the use case scenario:
This is helpful because for people who have an unlimited data plan, but not an unlimited tether plan this scenario would be useful. Easy tether is tethering, but not by the means of the traditional way. If easy tether gave you the ability to make a hotspot out of it, it would be great because you wouldn't even need the Pineapple.
That command "cat /etc/openwrt_release" was very helpful, that helped pin-point which version to use for the install.
I was able to successfully install the correct version