The hardware on the soundtouch 10/20/30 series was always surprisingly over engineered with heavy magnets, decent power supplies, and good enclosures but let down by a sluggish app and flaky mDNS implementation.
With this, they just became the best value proposition on the used market. Flashing these with a minimal distro running snapclient (for multiroom audio) and shairport-sync (AirPlay 2) makes them infinitely better than they were on stock firmware. eBay prices are probably going to double by tomorrow morning.
Except they didn't open source anything. They just published a simple API spec to allow play/pause/next button support over http.
I have used a ST10 as my tv speaker for years and despite being mono it has such a clear and full sound. Spectacular little box.