Yup. FTDI is the only chip maker that I avoid out of principle. They have been blatantly and unapologetically abusive. Their devices are also overpriced to a d

Yup. FTDI is the only chip maker that I avoid out of principle. They have been blatantly and unapologetically abusive. Their devices are also overpriced to a degree borders on comical, so they're not hard to avoid. For the price of their USB-UART chips you can get a top-tier microcontroller that can do USB-UART easily as fast, and still have plenty of capacity to spare.