They don't even make the chips anyway. Atmel makes the chips, although there are lots of clones of those too I'm pretty sure. Arduino just standardized the design of the board and the software. But the lovely thing about standards is that literally anyone can follow the standard. This is why we like standards. I thank Arduino for creating one. And I wish they would still be around to create more, but if they're going to turn evil, we can just drop them like a hot potato and keep using their standards.

If only they actually developed further instead of staying at that extremely low end for SO long. They could have partnered with Paul Stoffregen (Teensy) or whoever and pushed far further over the years.

Hearing them talk about growing is super odd in this context. It looked like they just wanted to chill the whole time.

The Arduino IDE is similar. You can still not select more of the console than what is visible. They completely broke it with 2.0 and do not fix it. It reverts all unsaved changes when you hibernate or sleep, absolutely ridiculous.

I'm not concernet about the hardware, but the software and the ecosystem. I wonder if we have another IDE that can compile Arduino code and access the library repo