It sounds like that it is a perfectly serviceable machine for its price (which isn't exactly a big surprise in the industry). But what makes it perfect for hack

It sounds like that it is a perfectly serviceable machine for its price (which isn't exactly a big surprise in the industry). But what makes it perfect for hackers? What makes it better than anything else for hackers? If it had at least a couple of accessible GPIOs, than I would understand it, but based on this article, TBH I don't see any hacker specific selling points.