That’s true but I think that’s not the only reason. Programming an FPGA isn’t as simple as writing and deploying compiled code, you have to write in a hardware

That’s true but I think that’s not the only reason. Programming an FPGA isn’t as simple as writing and deploying compiled code, you have to write in a hardware specification language. Actually you can get the same experience with an FPGA if you pay for the FPGA development tools, maybe what you’re asking for is a low cost version of Quartus or similar tools. I would like it if that existed but I fear FPGA makers deliberately want to keep their tooling expensive and hard-to-learn to promote lock-in.