I don't think they pretend you are dumb. As someone who is relatively a lay-person (as in - I know computers but I'm not a hardware person) I understand the di

I don't think they pretend you are dumb. As someone who is relatively a lay-person (as in - I know computers but I'm not a hardware person) I understand the difference as "can I buy some standard components off of amazon/ebay and lego-build a computer with fairly powerful components like geforce/radeon type GPUs and m.2 storage" or is something that's basically a sealed box/board (aside from more advanced stuff I won't do, like soldering chips to a PCB) and/or doesn't have access to desktop class components (as far as I'm aware you can't reasonably stick a desktop GPU on an rpi).