Worth noting that 16V8 and 22V10 GALs are still being made too, and I’d argue that programmers for them aren’t exactly “outdated”.
Not that I have anything against this design, I’m always happy to see a new SBC, though it could be argued that it still “hides” more of the bus inside the MCU than would perhaps be ideal.
are cplds okay
you can get currently-manufactured cplds for under two bucks
https://www.digikey.com/en/products/filter/cplds-complex-pro...
and probably nobody is going to say that an lc4032ze or an atf1502 is faster than a z80 (i mean, it's literally faster, in the same way that a 74hc04 is, but you sure aren't going to emulate a z80 on it)
Especially for the Atmel 15xx parts, the software is windows-only, old and annoyingly crash-prone. The GALs are at least programmable from modern OSes with commodity programmers.
That said, the CPLDs themselves are good chips, and I don’t think especially inappropriate for a vintage project