While I'm fascinated by Oxide, their style and work culture (if open documents are to be believed), I do think you're misunderstanding the homelab people a lot. Yes, I want the chance to play with an actual Oxide hardware in the same sense I'd want to touch a mainframe from the 80s. In the end though this is an extremely opinionated piece of tech that doesn't really invite or support tinkering. And homelab is about building something that no sane production-grade maker would ever be doing, so selling to this market would be quite an insane business venture.