Hoping this could push the costs of getting into Amiga hardware lower. I never got to use an Amiga in "the day", and seeing the prices continually creep and creep higher really discourages me.
The Vampire is a proprietary closed-source FPGA core that has nothing to do with the spirit of the Amiga. Their emulated CPU and chipset has glitches and issues are the order of the day.
A miSTer FPGA is a much better option, being completely open. An original Amiga 500 is not crazy expensive yet, and WinUAE is also an option, being the best and most accurate software emulator for the entire range of the Amigas (a lot more accurate and faster than any Vampire).