On one hand, I’m a fan of the ESP32 as a challenge.

OTOH, sometimes you actually need a full fledged computer for your semi embedded task, and sometimes you just don’t want to (or can’t be seen to, from PR standpoint) support Beijing.

While arguments can be made either way about the prior para, from a biz POV, it’s pretty binary.

Would love to find similar platforms that don’t involve those concerns and might theoretically be commercializable by hackers, but I’m not aware of many.