You're right, and Hubble Network (https://hubble.com https://hubble.com) is proof. We make commodity Bluetooth LE chips talk to satellites. That required antenn

You're right, and Hubble Network (https://hubble.com https://hubble.com) is proof. We make commodity Bluetooth LE chips talk to satellites. That required antenna design and link budget work no software abstraction would fix. Hubble does the deep RF work so that firmware engineers building IoT devices never have to.