At the specs and price, I found it to be very competitive with the Raspberry Pi 4, and it may even be more accessible for most people considering RPi's are still in high demand.
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This comment seems reasonable to me but is getting downvoted without reply. What am I missing in the parent’s remarks?
Didn't downvote but I've owned most of the OrangePi models over the years. Many of them require you to run their non-mainline kernels because of drivers that aren't upstreamed (and likely cannot be due to quality issues), and they never really update those kernels. It's quite annoying. Nowadays for routers and other utility boxen I often use Intel NUCs which are a bit more expensive but much more pleasant to work with (decent UEFI firmware, perfect mainline kernel support, etc).
Armbian and similar communities have worked hard to mainline Allwinner and Rockchip SOCs kernel drivers.
Note that this boards SOC is about 3x faster than a Raspberry Pi 4 https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxhardware/comments/r60lcp/rk358...
The RK3399 is indeed a great chip. I have an OrangePi RK3399 sitting on my desk right now in fact. But (at least when I last tried, last year) the mainline kernel support for the OrangePi RK3399 isn't really there beyond booting, and the board documentation is poor-to-non-existent so it's unlikely to improve.