[Shawnj2]

Since this is an Arduino product it would presumably be compatible with existing Arduino code and would be easier to get started with than the cheaper ones since it would have built in support within the Arduino IDE. If you’re teaching an Arduino class or have a setup that already uses an Arduino this could be easier to teach people to use than the regular ESP32, in addition to expecting higher quality QC processes and support from both the general Arduino community and the manufacturer. Obviously if you know what you are doing and have appropriate expectations for a $5 ESP32 board that would work well for your use case and can set it up easily without special instructions or a user guide you may want to use those for most of your use cases, but there is a reason people buy the more premium brand name options, especially businesses.

Same deal as the raspberry pi- the Pi isn’t as powerful as a lot of other boards and is more expensive than other boards in its class, but people use it because of the support.