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by joshuanapoli 284 days ago
Yes, this is it. When I'm experimenting, I'm happy to pay an extra $40 for the name-brand device that has 1000s of blog posts supporting it, since it's probably this community is going to help me be more successful and learn faster.

I would reconsider the choice when I have a commercial product that I have some scale of production, where a few bucks off the BOM is important.