[gluggymug]

Lol. I used to work in HW.

You are kind of insulting but it's true: we take what we can get. I am not sure what you are suggesting HW engineers do.

Who has time to build a better tool? That's a massive task. When you are on a project, you work on delivering it.

Projects fork out several thousand dollars for tools licenses because revenue for the finished product is in the millions of dollars.

The Xilinx tools are crap. But you just work around them. 95% of HW engineering is fixing the actual design. It doesn't matter that much how good the tools are.

It's like asking a truck driver to build their own truck. They're paid for getting stuff from A to B on time.