There's always cheaper/better but change has a price too. The points the author addresses are absolutely a thing but you get to know those after a few projects

There's always cheaper/better but change has a price too. The points the author addresses are absolutely a thing but you get to know those after a few projects. I don't really see an upside of switching out the SBC every year (or whatever the actionable advice is meant to be here) since that's quite literally never a point I want to spend time thinking about and the Pi is good enough (tm) for my use cases. It's not like the common use case for these hobby boards is in critical infrastructure.