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It seems really antithetical to the whole point of raspberry pi. Like a lowered/slammed truck that can't carry anything, or a bicycle with 100 training wheels and a gas motor.
It's like they've lost the plot.
It would be one thing if it was done by a user for fun, or otherwise was the exception to the rule. But having a $400 raspberry pi is ridiculous.
You're not wrong but...
A whole x86 SoC for reading a dial and controlling some RGB LEDs and a dot matrix display is ridiculous. Microcontrollers are IFAIK still as cheap as ever.
I wouldn't use a Pi for that either as this can all be done with a $5 ESP32