It's much better than before, but it's still surprisingly difficult to buy a cheap (good) FPGA board. For example, the cheapest ECP5 on digikey (FPGA's go for a lot less than list if you're buying more than a few) is about $10 yet the cheapest proper development board is a lot more.

The FPGA manufacturers like the margins, fine, but I'm surprised people who make boards like this one but for other things don't just chuck an FPGA on them (for some definition of "just")