[beryilma]

Call me old fashioned, but I wouldn't waste 100s, if not 1000s of bytes of program space to program them in python when literally 5-10 bytes of register programming would suffice. But, of course, this requires a bigger commitment of time to study and understand the reference manual.

[tpmoney]

Realistically its "wasted" whether or not you fill that address space with instructions or 0's. The memory is there whether or not you choose to use it. If you don't, nothing is going to use it at all.

I'd also argue that "old fashioned" would include the era of the venerable 6502 (yes, not an MCU, but hobby electronics programming isn't all MCUs) which was often programmed by hobbyists in BASIC, another interpreted language, so it's hardly a new thing to "waste" those bytes.