Early Arduino were all AVR 8-bit, at the time it was already on the way out. There were no shifts in industry to those chips.
People who got Arduino, either:
- blinked some LEDs and forgotten about it
- switched to esp32 and/or stm32
- esp32 and esp8266 move is funny because people started buying esp8266 to add Wi-Fi to their arduinos and then realized that they can just throw away arduino all together.
- switched to cheap clones that offer more
- quick connect for that not only want to blink LEDs, but also have some cool graphs to look at (like temperature and humidity)
- boards that specifically designed for their use case (i.e. battery and eInk connectors and circuitry required)
Arduino is inconsequential to industry as whole or even to hobbyist using it.
People who got Arduino, either:
- blinked some LEDs and forgotten about it
- switched to esp32 and/or stm32
Arduino is inconsequential to industry as whole or even to hobbyist using it.