alt Hacker NewsI think you haven't gone far enough. Most of this thread is rampant ignorance and propaganda influenced bandwagoning.
1) It's from a company known for dev boards and SoCs- not consumer products.
2) The code is available on GitHub (nice!)
3) SiSpeed actively contributes to the mainline linux kernel for RISC-V in general as well as their SoCs.
4) Security in Embedded Applications is just... Bad. Amercian, Chinese, European, Russian, Indian- it doesn't matter.
Also what do you really expect for 30€ or 60€ price point? On relatively low volume product. It even doing what is promised is already a good start to me. And that probably tells their priorities. Start from some already working image with wide support for features. And then add the features that are needed in specific use case. And then ship it.