> First, the drama with PlatformIO really rubbed me the wrong way. I'm taking the side of the developers who are hurt by confusion in tooling.

I'm out of the loop, have been using rp2040 since launch and never used platformIO.

How did you use it and what rubbed you the wrong way?

Developing locally either with cmake and pico sdk or micropython seems very easy... why add platformio in the mix?