Can you elaborate on the issues you're talking about? I support a couple of creators and my interactions with the site have been fine, so I'm curious what issues you have with it.
I bought a few 8th gen intel NUC mainboards off of ebay. I loaded them up with an SSD and RAM they work very well. Depending on how you want to manage your containers/VMs, a hypervisor is something to look into. I've been trying Proxmox on all my NUCs and they perform great, but there are other hypervisors out there.
I ordered two DIY pro kits (with the TVOC sensors) earlier this month and went to start working on them yesterday. After flashing the firmware, neither one would create a hotspot for me to connect to. Looking at them and doing some googling, i found they include knock-off Wemos D1 minis (labeled "mimi"). It looks like they're aware there are Wi-Fi issues, but the chips are still being used [0][1]. I sent in an email yesterday but I'm not expecting a response until at least tomorrow.
As others have said, the Wadworth Constant. You used to be able to add &wadsworth=1 to any youtube url and it would automatically skip ahead. They got rid of it at some point though.