[JKCalhoun]

I did a little dabbling in code for the ESP32 so I can't speak authoritatively at all, but I found that if your project does not require Wi-Fi, it was kind of annoying that the ESP32 would rob me of background cycles that, for example, the Teensy did not.

Maybe there was a way to turn off the Wi-Fi stack. But I suppose the general point still stands — that there are plenty of other small devices without Wi-Fi if that is not a requirement.