Agree, but there was something special about SBCs being so cheap they were the default recommendation for new hobbyists and I'm sad to see that go. I would not

Agree, but there was something special about SBCs being so cheap they were the default recommendation for new hobbyists and I'm sad to see that go. I would not have fallen in love with microcontrollers without Raspberry Pi and PocketCHIP as stepping stones. The messaging of "it's a tiny computer, make whatever you want with it" is so much more approachable than anything I've found on the microcontroller side. Even Arduino. I dismissed it for a long time because I misunderstood it. I thought I had to buy Arduino devices, then Arduino shields, then program them in the Arduino language using the Arduino IDE.