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.

I wouldnt call it fighting. They are skimming the top. Take a product, make it a little worse with the lowest possible effort to match the export limits and sell it. Rinse repeat.

The bypassing happens on its own. As if you couldn’t buy a 4090 in china