Realistically, it's never going to be Pi, for the same reason that video game consoles are always more performant than PCs for a given hardware spec.
There's no canonical Pi harness, it's too variable. There might be a world where something Pi based is the target, like OMP, but then you have to hesitate when you start extending the harness because you don't know what effect any given extension will have on model performance.
Yeah this does seem right. Oh well.