[eloisant]

The Raspberry Pi is the best if you can find it at MSRP, but I haven't seen that for many years now. You can only find it for at least double and at that price it's not worth it.

There are many alternatives that, granted, don't have a community as big as RPi, but are perfectly valid and can be found at a normal price.

[wlll]

I did a quick Google. The pi 5 4GB MSRP is $60 I think, there are some available on Amazon UK for £54.90 with delivery tomorrow. That's apparently $69.53, so above MSRP, but not terrible. There may be cheaper sources I've not googled hard.

[KaiserPro]

They are at msrp now for large parts of EMEA

[radicality]

rpi5 is at msrp of $80 for the 8gb version and widely available at that price in USA, just bought one few days ago.