Yep, this right here. You really need a good reason to choose an FPGA. The inherent throughput and a lot of stuff is incredibly powerful, but the development is

Yep, this right here. You really need a good reason to choose an FPGA. The inherent throughput and a lot of stuff is incredibly powerful, but the development is much more involved. To me anything sufficiently nontrivial always feels building a house with Lego.