[pjmlp]

Most embedded developers don't have any issues with proprietary tooling, they embrace them.

If you want their buy-in into other toolchains, you need to meet them where they are.

[bborud]

I wouldn't say that they embrace them. I'd say they accept them. Often because this is what they are used to.

It is mostly newcomers to the embedded programming scene that go on about tooling because they're used to better tooling from non-embedded development.

I think one should pay attention to the newcomers and try to learn from them.