In my opinion, it's actually closer to its original mission than previously as it can, in its current form, be quite easily used as a main computer. Some kids

In my opinion, it's actually closer to its original mission than previously as it can, in its current form, be quite easily used as a main computer. Some kids will naturally like tinkering with these kinds of things and that's where the original, cheaper model is better, but most will want a computer to accomplish a task, so the best way to get them to learn this kind of thing is to give them a practical reason to. Want to play Minecraft/Roblox/Whatever on your pi? Go ahead, you just need to figure out how to actually set that up on Linux.