The "much more capable" is debatable. The RP2000 series is quite disappointing IO-wise: no timers, barely any ADC, no touch sensors, no CAN, bare minimum of USA

The "much more capable" is debatable. The RP2000 series is quite disappointing IO-wise: no timers, barely any ADC, no touch sensors, no CAN, bare minimum of USART/I2C/SPI, no I2S, no I3C, no ethernet, no USB PD... And yeah, it has its PIO modules, but those aren't powerful enough to make up for it. They are fine as an alternative to bitbanging Neopixels, but you can't rely on some hobbyist's vibe-coded weekend PIO project which takes up all the PIO slices and 30% of one core to do application-critical communications. I would take an RP2000 in a heartbeat for most of my hobbyist products, but for anything professional an STM32 is orders of magnitudes better, and even a CH32v303 looks like a more attractive option at first glance.