There are only a few companies that can produce state of the art chips and those companies are easily regulated by the government.

These open devices would be running slow hot CPUs compared to the newer faster chips that the non-open devices would be running.

You don't need state of the art. We had supercomputers in our pockets a decade ago.

Still most consumers are unwilling to pay a premium for open hardware software. A thinner phone with a faster experience and better battery life seems to be all we care about. C.F. how repairable devices are a marginal part of the smartphone market.

Most people are not even willing to pay a few cents extra for a banana that didn’t cause cancer on plantation workers.

"Most people" eat shit food and watch fixed sport competitions. That is not the point. The point is trying to be better.

Right? In the cool indy web who actually cares about mass adoption. There is no way of saying it without being elitist but sometimes you just don’t want everyone in your space.

Id watch a black and white TV that is uncensored over a 8k TV that only plays content that falls within corporate guidelines. Content is king.

..which will rapidly be branded as "child porn devices" by politicians, then promptly outlawed after public outcry.