It occurs to me that #retrocomputing is a response to the alienation we feel working with modern technology. It's not just nostalgia for when we were kids; it's a yearning for technology that isn't there just to spy on us and extract more money from us. And technology we could understand. Entire companies don't even understand the technologies they're selling to us; they just adapt technology provided by others, who are in turn adapting technology from others: IP cores, kernels, drivers, software, toolchains. Compare to a microcomputer, where a single person can conceivably understand it down to the transistor level.
I know what every wire in the bus of my #RC2014 does. They correspond exactly to the pins on the #Z80 CPU. I know what every chip on every expansion board does. I've read the code for the #RomWBW BIOS and understand how it works. I understand how an assembler and a BASIC interpreter works.
Meanwhile, Flutter is over 2 gigabytes.