It's just the challenge, Nobody uses that for real products, have much better alternatives who do more and simpler, for example, the CH anything line that is also cheap and uses conventional western tools a good example is CH552 who has USB and do a lot more than any Padauk, with less than double the price, But still extremely cheap, and if you consider the cost of development, for sure is a much better alternative for problems that you may thing on padauk, For the more complex problems is another history, but the reference was padauk,