This can be hard to explain to both engineers and laypeople because there's Arduino, then there's Arduino, and then there's Arduino...
For instance, "Arduino" could mean the Arduino branded boards, and the cloud based development stack.
On the other hand, "Arduino" has become almost a generic term for any microcontroller board that happens to support the (open source) Arduino API. As in: "Just throw an Arduino in there."
For instance I've got several ongoing projects using third party boards such as Teensy, where my entire relationship to Arduino is represented by a single line of code:
We get that, but when some elements of the stack have incredibly onerous terms added to them, the 2nd order and 3rd order Arduinos become license untenable particularly for low-level developers working with minimal docs
Am including a few different articles on this because viewpoint diversity is good for this issue
My expectation (well, maybe my hope) is that the Arduino community will diverge from the Arduino business and become self sustaining.
Arguably, the cloud based development environment may have been a good idea, especially since a lot of students are stuck with locked down Chromebooks that can't install the toolchain locally. And I lack the expertise to speculate about this, but it would seem to me that if an entire Python toolchain can run in a web app (e.g., Jupyter Lite), then maybe an embedded dev environment could be make to work in a similar way.
Am asking because an OSS project asked me the same thing when I mentioned possibly using an Arduino platform for something related to their project.