>>2929484
its well documented and supported on hardware and software side and used by not only most beginners but most people teaching the beginners and it is infinitely made so no risk of it ever going out of style or discontinuing. I also have already made circuits for installing bootloader onto it and programming it and circuits for custom bare bones versions of it made from scratch. I'm deeply invested. And it isn't supposed to be a powerhouse of speed or anything its supposed to be just a middle man taking orders for modern computers and just turning on and off switches as ordered and reading in signals, not doing heavy math or logic. Those things are the job of main brains pcs, not the final low level microcontroller taking the orders. Think of it as the pawn, not the quieen or rook.