First world problems
I read all these tales of woe that befell the cRaptor Lake intel chips and decided I would buy AMD on the next round.
Now I'm wanting to build a NAS. Eventually found a (footprint x small) case chassis that will work, for sale in this backwater (has 4x SATA bays). So now I go hunting for a Mini ITX AMD mobo. I'm about to trigger a transaction on this CPU/board combination that I like when I notice: the AMD chipset only supports RAID 0, 1, and 10. Check specs for the intel motherboard: supports RAID 5. Check another intel motherboard: also supports RAID 5. So currently on order: Intel Core 5 14'th Gen and a matching ITX mobo.
Conclusion: Over here in the sticks in the backside of africa one has to make do with what one can find.