I'm reading the point about not being able to afford a new Macbook, and an very sympathetic to problems of cost.
But you must agree there's a major distinction between the high cost of a good in market terms, and the personal situation un-affordability to buy a thing.
By every measure Mac laptops and personal computers are insanely less expensive today than any previous time, and that's not counting performance, which has advanced by a factor of a million or so since the first Apple laptops.
Apple has numerous 1000ish offerings if you want to be on the bleeding edge, which in terns of literal dollar counts is less than half the cost of the 1984 Mac. Considering inflation the new kit is about 1/5 of the unit cost.
Measured as performance-per-dollar over history, today's PCs are free. They just happen to have a cost step to entry, but this has become arbitrarily low, even for new gear.
Case in point, a month ago I bought a new Beelink mini PC (NUC) with 4 core Celeron compute equal to 2008 Mac Pro, 16G, 512G SSD, 4K x3, USB3 gen2, and Windows 11 Pro pre-installed for $180 US retail, at a sale price. So the idea that there's any cost factor prohibiting access to a capable new PC is absurd.
As to fine points about Thunderbolt, GPU, neural chips, ProRes, etc, well as Rosanne Rosannadana's father used to say in the '70s: "It's always something!" But we can generalize that at some degree of featurefulness means we're longer considering a commodity, but a specialized object. Historically, such artifacts are always subjectively priced, e.g., the price of a unit cryptographic key on the Bitcoin blockchain is currently hovering around $30K. Is that affordable?
I am not trying to be hyperbolic.
As to needing a Mac, today that is nothing but a pure personal preference. A preference I respect, but it's totally subjective in any rhetoric about value.
As to catalog of cheap kit that can be hacintoshed, I'm afraid I could find no path from Beelink to macOS, but I'm not an expert. I chose to dual boot Windows and Ubuntu, both of which work exactly as you would expect for the spec. And it's only going to get harder.
But good news: MSFT is effectively giving away Windows 11, and Linux communities welcome tech-minded enthusiasts!
If your time is worth anything, you can run both those stacks on almost any HW in a tiny fraction of the hours required for hackintosh...
And... if you chose Linux, the effort you expend learning arcane details has value in the future, whereas for hackintosh it's appears to be At World's End— To quote Capt Barbosa: "For sure, you have to be lost to find a place that can't be found, elseways everyone would know where it was!"
The future of hackintosh is at best Thar be dragons!
To repeat: a measure of hack value in terms of "not being able to afford a Macbook before 5 years of saving" is not a comment about the value of Apple Macs.
Comments about why you can't live without a Mac would be illuminating to forum: In my case, the preference to Mac is that I like the layout and the Macs I've purchased have turned out be well-made and decently long-lived. Apple has made a lot of junk, but I somehow avoided it.
My foray into hackintosh was due to free PC kit right before AppleSi. It took on a life of its own and I ended up with a stable powerful hackintosh. But I am left only with reservations. M1 kit has reset my expectations.