You can overcome 2 by building a software that parametrizes your hardware. Just like a core wizard, you can build a Python scripts that output the Verilog/VHDL

You can overcome 2 by building a software that parametrizes your hardware. Just like a core wizard, you can build a Python scripts that output the Verilog/VHDL code according to the desired settings. Not only accelerates the process, but may also prevent bugs on the long run.