I'm all for cheap stuff for beginners but what good is an fpga board without a lot of peripherals? I mean the whole point of dumping your design into an actual

I'm all for cheap stuff for beginners but what good is an fpga board without a lot of peripherals? I mean the whole point of dumping your design into an actual fpga is to see it doing something. If I were just learning to desing, doing so would be very much possible in the software tools itself, if I'm able to succesfully go upto bitstream generation without errors and meet timing, it means my design is going to work on a physical board too. I'm open to changing my opinion on this though.