alt Hacker News> If you were under the impression that community RE was to praise for its usability
no, it's you are under some impression you imagined that came from misreading what I wrote
I'm saying "if something is popular, one would expect everything to be scrutinized already, just due to popularity".
"binary blob in the middle of open source" is doubly intriguing target that's weird that it took so long to attract attention
I don't think its a lag of attraction. If you interested in it, you quickly will realize how much of a behemoth that task really is.
First you have to limit yourself to a specific radio variant, because the actual radio hardware is different on different esp32 variants.
Then you have a massive amount of things this "blobs" actually contain.
And last there is also a lot of continues movement integrating newer radio features. E.g newer BLE version standard implementation and so forth. So you play catch with actual new development.