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>So ... exactly for what the device is being sold as? Weird complaint: "I purchased an apple, and all I got was an apple that's only good as an apple."

Like I said:

>>All that being said, there's nothing wrong with Arduino as a platform for learning and personal tinkering.

I was just adding my 2 cents on Arduinos based on personal experience. That is all.

>Then you would know that ATmegas are in a lot of successful commercial products from the past.

Yes. What led you to believe I was suggesting otherwise? I made no criticism of the ATmega328, any other ATmega chip, or the AVR ISA for that matter. I could make some if I wanted to, but it doesn't seem relevant. The topic was Arduino boards, which typically contain an AVR chip, but is in fact not a chip but a dev board.