You might be true for the market.

However, that target audience, those hobby enthusiasts, hobby developers, also university labs with low budget, those are the people who will develop the future open source frameworks, and ultimately/implicitly those are the people who can have a quite big impact on the future development of brand recognition and the open source ecosystem around the hardware. Those people can shape the future trends.

So, only looking at the market, how much units you would sell here, that totally ignores the impact this might have indirectly in the future.