Success! I managed to get the Pluggable 2.5G USB adapter working as LAN5 (eth9) with full 2.5gigabit speeds on my GT-AX11000 (Asus Merlin v388.1). Now I have 2x 2.5G interfaces on my router.
How: Compiled RTL8156B drivers (v2.16.3) for GT-AX11000 + updating init-start scripts (as specified in...