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When you add up prices of:
Total cost of entry becomes much less attractive for hobby use and is close enough to cheaper or used mini PCs which allows for much smoother experience in regards to os support
It started with the pi4 already. If weight and size doesn’t matter and you don’t need the IO pins, then rather buy a cheap NUC. Faster, properly build complete package and unironically needs less power when idleing.
for the power usage and size? I don't think so. NUC's are 150 euro+
The silly thing is that Pi5, at least currently, tends to idle at basically the same or higher power than your average Intel N100 NUC-like PC. This might change in the near future with firmware upgrades (just like it has changed for Pi 4). Those N100 PCs can be had for ~200€ with SSD, memory etc - ready to go in comparable form factor.
Pi does still make a ton of sense if you keep it rather basic, but equipping it fully with a nice case/cooling, m.2 SSD and proper PSU does bring it within spitting distance of price of basic NUCs. Against those it loses pitifully in performance department (as well as efficiency!) - which you likely cared about at least somewhat if you went out of your way to add performance-related stuff to the Pi to begin with.