I'd argue specs really do matter. There is several points to make:
Firstly hobbyists are really a spectrum. Anything in between an retired pro to a child playing with point resistor legs can be called hobbyists, and it is people from within this spectrum who make it accessible to others and advancing what is possible for someone without a lab and funding.
Having cheaply available hardware with at least good enough datasets drives this.
In my mind we shouldn't argue a blinking KARR is enough for a child. This is the argument for regression. We should think what a child's mind can come up with, if we make those recent things accessible to them.
Coming back to specs: CNXSoft is one of those sites that maps new features, technologies that we can use to hardware that becomes available. It is the inspiration to those higher level hobbyists to make the tools for the beginners.