[bendoerr]

Can anyone explain or further expand on this statement

> plain C and ESP IDF are too difficult for the broad audience

My intuition is that most folks who hack on EPS32 and other microcontrollers have no problem with these things.

[snakeye]

From my experience - most people say "Arduino is ok" but struggle working with plain C.

As well keep in mind number of ready-made libraries for Arduino that can be reused here almost out of the box.