Awesome advice, thank you so much! I think I am leaning towards the A1200 at this point, so I'll keep an eye out for one like you described. I'm good to go on the monitor, fortunately, I'll be using a Sony PVM with SCART RGB most likely.
The FPGA based systems do sound pretty cool, but I feel like I might as well use WinUAE if I were going to enjoy the games that way. Systems like the Minimg still have their benefits and I'm glad they exist, but I am interested in the original Amiga hardware as well and would definitely like to explore it more.