I heard Sony is helping make Raspis and they are working to build up inventory so the prices should starting coming back down.

I wasn't doing anything computationally heavy so my experience with the Raspi Umbrel was very good.

My main use case was backend for onchain wallets and managing less than 10 lightning channels.

For that It was very reliable and I had no issues.

If the price comes back down to reasonable levels, I still think it is a good way for people interested in running Bitcoin to get their foot through the door.

The Umbrel Home is great, but it's still 10 man yen so that's a pretty high hurdle if one is just starting out 😅