Arduino’s sweet spot was always in education and learning.

I think most people should graduate into PlatformIO or vendor tools if they’ve used Arduino to learn basics.

I think it’s great that the Arduino ecosystem became so large and capable, but it had the side effect of leading many beginners into thinking that Arduino was synonymous with microcontroller.

I even took a contract once updating a company’s internal tooling because their first contractor tried to do it all with Arduino. The same scenario happens with Raspberry Pi in the world of Linux embedded systems development.