I appreciate what the Raspberry Pi ecosystem has done for education and hobbyist users. I don't appreciate how everything has become "strap a pi on it". I say this as someone who adores their Idun cartridge and TeensyROM, both of which use a pi hardware

Monoculture can be a bad thing. Here we are, 20+ years after Intel wanted to ditch x86 for itanium. We're just getting past BIOS boot. My OpenBSD box still has to turn on the A20 handler at bootup which is a throwback to the early 32 bit days.

I think of how Apple kept an x86 build of OSX in their back pocket, just in case that whole PowerPC thing didn't work out.

Always keep your eye on the door - with any platform. Be suspicious when they add arbitrary roadblocks to keep you from moving to something better.