From Jens perspective it makes perfect sense to have no CPU, its a new board, that sells more of his boards and it *might* work with older accelerators too. Likewise with the USB etc.
Really he's not going to be able to please everyone and this "buy what you want" approach makes sense.
I agree. The amiga community is, well, a little nutty. And as someone else mentioned, it would be impossible to please all the people all the time. This seems like the best compromise.
I seem to remember some people complaining about the addition of the 68020 to the aca500. I also remember a lot of people complaining that the aca500 was external. This seems like a reaction to both those complaints. This allows people to do whatever they want.
So maybe this approach will offend the fewest people while providing a reasonable solution to those who are offended? It's a lot easier to add missing features than to remove (and refund) unneeded features.