The view that x86 is The Only Way Forward for the Amiga is holding the community back because many people are so shackled to this notion that a "new Amiga" has to compete with, outperform, and eventually (obviously) overthrow the PC clones that they aren't interested in anything else the Amiga hardware world has to offer.
Is it not the case that this attitude is due to x86 being commodity* hardware rather than it's performance merits?
*More users == more developers == more users == cheaper and more plenty hardware.
The lower the barrier to entry the better for all regardless of CPU architecture.
In theory at least....
