N100 indeed looks like a good alternative. I own one N100-based mini PC and I see there are some N100-based SBC as well. x86-like support for ARM/RISC-V SoC would be a miracle ;-).
Yeah, I love it. Losing access to the RPI ecosystem addons kind of sucks, but I found I don't really use them anyway. I think you can get a USB GPIO if you really need that, but personally I've moved more towards N100 for services, ESP32 for devices.
