Ha! I often find myself wishing I had an FPGA. It's very common that I have to control external devices that would be straight forward with logic but requires

Ha! I often find myself wishing I had an FPGA. It's very common that I have to control external devices that would be straight forward with logic but requires all soft of hacks and tricks using a microcontroller. Here's just one simple example: controlling servos. Sure you can do that with most uC simply enough, say using timer interrupts, but what if I need to control 100 of them? In logic, I can just instantiate 100 very trivial pulse controllers where as this typically is impossible with a microcontroller or at the very least leaves no cycles free for any computation. Another example: you want to implement a nice little crypto, like ChaCha20. Even though ChaCha20 is efficient, it's still a lot of cycles for a microprocessor, where as an FPGA can implement this is a nice pipeline, potentially reaching speeds like 800 MB/s, while still having ample resources left for other work. I could go on.