i really with raspberry pi foundation released a pi with built in nvme instead of using a hat. i think using flash memory is the true bottleneck on the system

Heh, I'm the opposite. I wish the rpi stayed the course of cheapest "working" SBC, and move their high-end boards to a different brand. Raspberry Sigma, or 67 or whatever gets the younguns crazy these days.

After the pandemic, the "25$" SBC suddenly became 100+ with low availability. The main thing that made rpis worth it is gone now, and they're all chasing number go up on benchmarks.

The 500+ model has NVMe storage and comes with a 256GB drive.