Feel like RPi is heading to a commercial upgrade direction: more cores, higher frequency, faster processors, faster networks, etc. Wasn't RPi originally designe

Feel like RPi is heading to a commercial upgrade direction: more cores, higher frequency, faster processors, faster networks, etc. Wasn't RPi originally designed to teach programming and to make a hackable gadget? With that goal, I think a simple (and therefore maybe low performance) system is easier to learn and to hack than more and more fancy and complex architecture. From that perspective, BBC Micro bit is doing the right thing IMO.