More expensive sure. But better is pretty rich considering it is Intel. My money is on this platform just evaporating in the next 5 years. Esp32 has proven you can rely on supply and longevity.

Arguably the UP^2 is another class of device. Up to 8 GB of RAM and up to 128 GB of storage + a whole x86 CPU with dual gigabit LAN.

And the price, size and power consumption are also quite a bit higher but it will certainly grant a better general compute environment, if you want to run Linux or smth.

It's very easy to use any pytorch or tensorflow packages, or open3d, pcl, librealsense or similar vision packages. Powerful enough to do realtime vision tasks, which you certainly cannot do with 2€ boards.