I'd say its pretending in the sense of comparing a vaporware product you'll never receive or only available for hyperinflated price from scalpers, vs delivered from Amazon Prime on your doorstep tomorrow.

Like comparing a Chevy Volt on the used car lot that I could buy tonight vs a hypothetical Tesla concept car with an anticipated delivery date of 2026. I'm sure the vaporware has better specs but its not "fair" to pretend to compare them.

But, you are in a sense technically correct on a small scale, yes.

The Rock 5 also takes a while to ship right now (I was in an early batch of pre-orders), and the Pi 4 is available at MSRP for either the lucky or the patient. Using rpilocator.com and notifications, most people I know who wanted to buy one have been able to find a 2, 4, or even 8 GB Pi 4.

CM4 are much harder to find though. Hopefully that changes this year, but from what I've heard it will take longer for some reason :(

> Pi 4 is available at MSRP for either the lucky or the patient

So basically not available.

And as you said CM4's are impossible to get. I have one I ordered two years ago.