I have a few raspi lying around, and while the 4/5's do work kind of nicely with Libreelec, they ´weren't designed to be living room material. And the pi foundation does everything to keep it that way:
- no power management,
- no soft on/off
- flimsy connectors (micro hdmi is mechanically highly unstable)
- no decent case
- connector all around the board
- no remote and while it has CEC, the latter cannot switch on the device
People keep saying keep it on, it doesn't suck that much power when idle,,, hmm, well, yes, but it keeps wol-ing other servers that could actually sleep. If you disable wol, then again you need to run around and physically switch on other stuff..
Again usabilty for non Nerds is a pretty low. Also, the PQ has improved, it isn't that great.
Which brings me back to intel nucs. Why is it that it they have been abandoned? Money? Is it possible to bribe someone to bring back functionality that was already there in LE10 and got broken in 11/12?
The best case for pi4 is the argon one V1/V2, on/off power management, and for the remote i use for year rii mini keyboard, far better than a simple remote control