As a personal opinion, I think some folks pay too much attention to the old things(like #retrocomputing). I think there are so many good things in the old things. And I also agree the modern computing age has tons of caveats. But instead of hanging on the old, we should take inspiration and make things for the feature to escape this hole we are currently stuck in.
I would say a wiser way to spend time is making retro style but modern computers which actually solve a problem. Like I said before, you can do a lot with something like a Raspberry Pi Pico, if you have the right set of tools and software ecosystem. Then we could have dirt cheap computers which actually solve a problem. Rather than just pure nostalgia.
I wish a group would form to write proper Operating System for some cheap #SBC, let's say Amlogic S905X or even #milkvduo and try to form an ecosystem around it.
If our softwares were written correctly and not like half of our desktop softwares were actually bloated #Electron apps, we could get so far with only 2GB of RAM.
Think about it, a school pays only like 300 USD for a dozen of these SBCs and they could use it for like a decade!
Edit: I remember in the list of projects funded by NLnet, there were some "single task" computers built with FPGA. Also like I said a while ago in my other post, web is a major problem. You can do tons of things with very lowend processors... except the modern web. But also on the other hand, do we need the modern web for most of our purposes?