Thankfully I'm far too broke to be able to afford Amigas so that's not an issue I have to deal with
Ha! If the Amiga community is really as toxic as I've heard, that's probably a good thing, as you suggest!
The extreme prices, of course, are probably a symptom of the problem. My impression is that they all think they're this exclusive little club of ultra geeks, so snobbery and belittlement of beginners and anyone else who dares to intrude runs rampant. Artificially keeping prices unreasonably high for almost everything Amiga seems to maintain this exclusivity by acting as a barrier to entry that locks most people out completely.
It's a shame, really, as from what I've read about the Amiga platform, I find it's really quite a fascinating and intriguing platform I wouldn't have minded exploring, especially considering how it shares a CPU architecture (Motorola 68k) in common with early, pre-PPC Macs (indeed, with the proper tools, an Amiga can run early Mac OS versions almost better than a contemporary real Mac could, with the Amiga's access to bigger and better screens being one of the main reasons why, I'm sure).
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