I'm now kind of wondering why #BeagleBoard isn't more popular in light of the scarcity of #RaspberryPi boards.
At minimum the 4G version of BeagleBlack is better than the Pi Zero W when on SD and quite a bit better if you boot from eMMC. Overall setup price is higher for a BB but not that much as it's pretty much impossible to buy JUST a Zero W board but you have to buy a kit.
After working with it, two biggest problems I can see right now is the very outdated OS and kernel.