Here's an idea: create a subscription service that signs me up for 20 USD per month and gets me the latest hip boards in a reasonable time frame (I realize that this specific board is outside of this price range).
Then you have incompetent vendors like Olimex, Pine64, Next Thing Co (of C.H.I.P., the "$9" SBC) that fuck up the hardware, software, or both, and forget critical stuff like heat spreading copper layers in the SBC (Olimex), misroute ethernet so it can't actually do a gigabit a sec (Pine64), or lie about SOC software support and scramble to port the closed blobs that make their board work forward (Next Thing Co).
I've used quite a few Olimex boards for pretty serious work project, often as a prototype before we settle on a 'real' hardware to develop, and I've always been very pleased with what I've got. Altho, I haven't bough any of their 'really fancy' boards lately.
Disclaimer: I was the one who rewrote and upstreamed the original Mini2440 'friendlyarm' board.
They refused to remove a label from their SoC in production so we could install a thermal sink plate in our final assembly. Even for 2,000 SOMs/year they wouldn't do it. Went to Boundary Devices and they happily helped us out.
$60/quarter was what you asked for, interestingly.
third one ships this week or so.
I'm not sure if its an upside or a downside that all the boards are adafruit products. Its adafruit so its excellently documented but its essentially the "feather ecosystem quarterly subscription" in practice. I realize they have customer service type costs but it would be interesting to see something other than feather ecosystem products. I'm not saying its not fun, its a lot of fun, I'm just saying it would be more fun to get something truly weird in the box.
I enjoyed building the robot in the second box and generally hacking around on it.