[jandrese]

I'd love it if the storage and Ethernet weren't hanging off of the same USB. Or on USB at all. The USB is a perennial bottleneck on the RPi.

There are a lot of boards that implement it correctly in hardware, but then make a hash out of the driver support with binary blob drivers that are fixed to a particular kernel version and crash from time to time.

It's probably not technically feasible currently, but I'd love to see a board where all of the hardware is open (even the 3D acceleration!) and already mainlined into the kernel so you could just install whatever distro you want on it and available at a price point under $50. I'm really tired of "you need to dump this proprietary binary blob into the graphics chip before the rest of the board can even start to boot." Why is it taking so long to come up with a universal boot solution, something that could be integrated into GRUB so you don't need to program magic offsets into the bootloader to make it work? PC hardware manufacturers more or less solved this problem 30 years ago, and I'm not taking "but the hardware is so specialized that you can't do it" as an answer anymore. The SBC world is absolutely crammed with stovepipes for no good reason.