From what we found out, you experienced problems with WiFi only.
Higher throughput, and in turn IRQs will cause time to be taken away from the lircd thread to service dhd threads.
There are some driver improvements that should provide better performance and mitigate this.
We still use LIRC for remote profiles as defined in My OSMC and we haven’t deployed ir-keytable by default yet. We include the package now to configure the repeat rate of input devices however.
In the future, we plan to deprecate LIRC profiles and add support for keytable configuration via My OSMC 2.0.