Sometimes I wish I'd had one and some books back in the day. How different life might have been. Eventually, a 68k was nice, but actual documentation was hard to come by where I grew up. Didn't actually really learn to use assembly before 8051 classes much later.
I like this guy. If you're into retro computing, Ben Eater, who was mentioned in this video, has an awesome channel too: one of his video series involves making a computer from scratch on a breadboard using one of these bad boys (65c02, I think)
For what it's worth, he quit the worst of his gun-nuttery once he realized how insane every one else who was into that scene was, and when the school shootings really took off. He posted a mea culpa video the last time everything blew up explaining how he left those politically active groups.
Not saying you have to like him or agree with his views but he did change his mind about a lot of things.