You got lucky, Acorn left a pretty good legacy in place to build on, it just took a long time.
It's sad when you can buy one of these for $149 but the only new Amiga PPC motherboard is $1000.
The SAM has potential that this doesn't (slots, sata), but this is still a complete 1ghz system with OpenGL, SDCard, hardware video decoding and 512MB RAM. Stick this in an A600 style case with ARM AmigaOS and you've got a cool little usable computer.
I know hindsight is always 20/20, but it's too bad Hyperion doesn't seem interested in any other CPU options these days.
Weren't there MorphOS ARM rumors?