You also need to think of chip availabilities for short runs, who knows what compromises chen had to make in order to get this far. It's all well and good imagining perfect unicorn devices but sooner or later the real world gets in the way.

If a slightly old SoC would put you off this device, then I guess you didn't really care that much about the keyboard, which is the whole point of the exercise.

Integrated keyboard plus decent (but not 2019 flagship) extras seems like a reasonable deal to me