I bought a home assistant green to support the project.
I am very happy with it.
However, when first plugging it in, I decided I wanted to use another power socket and replugged it.
The setup process however starts automatically and I bricked the OS.
While it is not difficult to reset the OS from a SD card, it makes for quite a bad user experience.
I have found quite a few other users who posted to the forums, that made the same mistake.
Solution
Ideally the first time setup would wait for user interaction.