Believe it or not, the mate is the cheapest DAW alternative hardware to ever come out. Musicians all over the internet were freaking out at how cheap it was.
For comparison, the previous reigning champion of the space is the OP-1, coming in at $2000.
For crying outloud, people pay 80$ for a shitty half-built calculator that can only play a prerecorded set of instruments in a loop.
https://www.amazon.com/Teenage-Engineering-Programmable-Synthesizer-Sequencer/dp/B08LHBLNCS/
Found while casually browing ... https://www.amazon.com/Teenage-Engineering-Programmable-Synthesizer-Sequencer/dp/B08LHBLNCS/