Let it be clear: i am not saying that to criticize you. I don't judge you. I actually tried your firmware on the tdeck and liked it a lot!
But in what you say i see two things alarming:
- the cult of "speed" which is rather a thing of performance rather than of robustness, a metric of capitalism, which is NOT what i think makes _better_ software for everyone
- the dependency to these tools that is genuine, and that may go with a loss of the ability to do manual code and seriously review code (like a muscle, these when unused get atrophied...)
once the price for these things will start matching their costs, then what..?