>I'd imagine that if you're developing hardware that requires an FPGA, odds are high that you don't need or want an Arduino bolt-on. I can see people using it

>I'd imagine that if you're developing hardware that requires an FPGA, odds are high that you don't need or want an Arduino bolt-on. I can see people using it just for the convenience factor - if you can perform update the FPGA by loading a new bitstream via the arduino or the ESP32 (assuming that's a thing you can do) over IP or zigbee or something, you could fix mistakes remotely. Handy if you were using it for e.g. ham radio and had it mounted in a box at the top of a radio tower, and didn't feel like making the climbs to adjust it.