[baby_souffle]

Sure, but none of the hardware peripherals routed out to those pins are exclusive to that pin header.

If you need a few i2c or SPI or uart buses or even just general purpose IO then AliExpress has a gazillion little USB based modules that will get you exactly that.

If you're still very new to electronics and not at all comfortable going outside of well-established curriculum that explicitly says use this raspberry pi with this sensor attached on these pins with this library configured in this way... Yes. But that can't be most of the people paying this price?

[imtringued]

You don't seem to get it.

SBC Customer: Let's say I build a product using your latest SBC. Will it get updates after I bought it?

SBC Vendor: No

SBC Customer: Okay, but surely I can at least buy more in 2035?

SBC Vendor: No

SBC Customer: Why would anyone building a commercial product be interested in your particular SBC then?

SBC Vendor: We expect you to buy and then regret your purchase.

[justin66]

Most of the people buying raspberry pis are industrial customers who are not on the fence about whether to buy an SBC or someone’s trashed PC.