True, which is to say they are a competitor with alternate toolchains If I get a board with an Arm0 chip and want to flash it with micropython, Arduino is not

True, which is to say they are a competitor with alternate toolchains If I get a board with an Arm0 chip and want to flash it with micropython, Arduino is not the only game in town (not even my first choice by a long shot, ymmv) With the lower power AVR chips, Arduino's only competitor was the project it was forked from, Wiring - any other embedded toolchains were not even trying to reach the casual hobbyist, the Arduino IDE dominates that niche.