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Agreed with the sentiment that this isn't that bad. As far as chip errata go, it's definitely unusually broad impact. So yeah, it's an abnormally bad bug. But for your average Pi Pico user, they still will never notice. The only possible thing I could imagine your average micropython tinkerer needs to know is "use pullups not pulldowns with buttons on the Pi Pico 2". Everything the entry level hobbyist is likely to encounter is a sufficiently strong drive to avoid the issue. Capacitive touch buttons might not work without external components, but I don't know.

Bigger picture, RPi is doing their third ever chip fab. The errata (silicon bug) list for the prior RP2040 is shorter than some I've seen from companies five times their age.[1] This issue isn't a logic error and wasn't going to be found by digital simulation. This is analog weirdness. Their documentation, including of errata, is among the best I (moderately experienced hobbyist) have ever encountered for a microcontroller. RPi is doing an excellent job and this is a but a hiccup. Maybe it's concerning for industrial customers, but as a hobbyist I'm still excited for my Pico 2 to arrive.

[1] Favorite errata warstory: Radio chip will lock up and need to be power cycled if a received packet has a particular corrupt length field, one bit flip away from one we used. Official solution: don't allow packet corruption. Turns out radios don't work like that.