Kind of dead for hobbyists, I'd say. Pi's used to be a super low budget, easily accessible computing platform, which is what made it so great for almost every p

Kind of dead for hobbyists, I'd say. Pi's used to be a super low budget, easily accessible computing platform, which is what made it so great for almost every project that needed more than an arduino. Now it's usually the hardest part to get, and the complete opposite of a "throwaway" computer that you can stick everywhere. I'm sure the pricing doesn't bother enterprise or industrial users, and the Pi Foundation is almost entirely devoted to catering to them. But hobbyists are super sensitive to pricing and ease of access, and the only reason to still use it is that tons of projects are already built to run on Pi's. Even then, Units are almost entirely allocated to enterprise/b2b demand, so the retail customer market is so extremely undersupplied that it's just not worth actively hunting for days just to run an interesting app you wanted to tinker with.