Could you elaborate? I've tried boards from a couple of different vendors and if anything, the proprietary stuff needed for Raspberry Pi has been the most frustrating for me (apart from Android TV Boxes, but hey, we weren't "supposed" to run Linux on those in the first place).

The 3B and 4B have their own different hacks needed to get normal Linux distros running under 64bit, and it's nothing you can expect an average hobbyist user to figure out even with the resources put out by people in the community who have succeeded (unless they just flash some unsigned image containing god knows what uploaded out by some rando on a forum).