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> If it breaks, even if not because of anything Project C did, their paying customers are going to demand work from THEM.

Well... isn't that what their customers are paying them for?

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Exactly. If PlatformIO had enough paying customers who needed support for this chip, they would probably want to add support for it themselves.

It's the non-paying "customers" who are the problem here, expecting PlatformIO to grow in ways that the core team sees as unsustainable.