Some clarification - Intel NUC is used heavily and extensively in testing of all LE releases - specifically a NUC12WSKi7, and previously NUC6,10,11. There are known “issues” with audio on NUC11 that I have personally experienced, but are not occurring on a NUC12WSKi7. So not sure what issues are being referenced. There are LSPCON issues in some NUC devices that have caused issue.
Note: when using “new” (not yet upstreamed hardware) e.g. the AX100 wireless, some of the N100 chips … there will be 12-18 months of pain for the purchaser (note - I run bleeding edge software (and release candidate / patches) - to allow testing and running on these newer generations of hardware.) so LE is pretty much up to date as much as possible for support of newer hardware. But if the hardware being purchased is not fully supported by Kernel 6.6.y for Intel equipment (I can only vouch for the NUC mentioned) then you will have issues as this is the release that we are going with for LE12.
Next thing is unfortunately Intel has left the NUC business, and as an avid NUC users, have not decided on my next Intel direction. But after LE12 is released - I will probably be focussed on using the AMD Beelink SER7 - but this will bring its own challenges.