AVR is going a bit off-topic here, but: We talked about this at length during the Virtual Open Assembly during this year’s summit. Basically, your user story was one of the main reasons, why we want to keep at least the AVR: every student marginally interested in Embedded stuff has some Arduino flying around at home. So this is typically the board they flash RIOT onto. Removing that would require to buy dedicated hardware, making the initial barrier of entry much higher.
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