[michaelt]

There's a school of thought that says if your target customers are mass producers, it doesn't matter how much your development kit costs. Because any professional engineer on a work project can afford a $30 dev kit, and a good portion a $3000 dev kit.

Of course, not everyone follows this line of thinking; due to their cheap, accessible hardware there are innumerable people with Arduino/ESP8266 experience, which might lead people to attempt mass produced projects with them.

[throwaway9d0291]

> Of course, not everyone follows this line of thinking; due to their cheap, accessible hardware there are innumerable people with Arduino/ESP8266 experience, which might lead people to attempt mass produced projects with them.

That was my experience exactly. I've been working on an embedded project for work and since I'm so used to using the ESP32s at home, I chose them without much thought for work as well.