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As someone who had a machine with an Atom chip during the height of the netbook phase: [whoa, this is worthless] meme
They aren't worthless, they are just much more suited for low power embedded systems rather than a general purpose PC.
There are vanishingly few use cases where an anemic x86 would be a better choice than almost any ARM or RISC-V system.
So perhaps not worthless, but close to it.