[Avamander]

> only be recovered by removing the eMMC, which would be very difficult for most users.

No, it would require an SD-card to recover.

[megous]

Not even that, USB cable is enough.

[Brian_K_White]

Are you quite sure about that?

A lot hinges on a fact like that. It's the difference between not-convenient and not-possible.

Will the device actually know how to boot from sdcard if the part they are talking about is broken?