The tooling is bad because it is a Katamari Damacy of 3rd party libraries held together with wheat paste and boogers. The majority of the software was not devel

The tooling is bad because it is a Katamari Damacy of 3rd party libraries held together with wheat paste and boogers. The majority of the software was not developed in house, and they pass the savings on to the customer. The FPGA vendors see themselves as ASIC replacements so from their perspective they are "killing it" across all metrics. We know where this needs to go.