I used to buy quite a bit of stuff from ASRock, first purchase trace I could find was a 939 Dual VSTA from 2006, which offered the ability to upgrade from an AMD K8 939 socket to a AM2 940 one. Which I also did and that system might actually still running today (don't ask). It could have been the essential step to AMD64 64-bit, which I absolutely couldn't miss, but not afford a new system for.... I'd have to check.
I liked them precisely because they were always extra createive, they'd alway play a little loose with the vendor imposed limitations.
E.g. they'd simply ignore the official RAM limits Intel imposed on their Atoms, ASRock Mini-ITX Atom boards would always support as much RAM as the hardware could, so DDR3 with 16GB and DDR4 with 32 GB when 4/8 GB were officially the maximum supported: other vendors stuck to those limits and that's why I discarded them, because I really wanted those silent Atoms to run quite a few VMs.
They still work btw, 24x7 since 2019...
It's by sheer accident, or lack of stand-out features, that I didn't pick them for most of my builds since then.
And I'd sure hate to be in that spot with a failed or damanged system, because I can't quite imagine them replacing board and CPU today, nor would it be much use when you can't wait ages for a working system.