FPGA's are the shit but the software is the key. To make them really fly we need some really brilliant software to configure them. Someone is going to disrupt this space soon and whoever does I think will make a unicorn. Just my guess.
They bought one of the best hardware makers with one of the worst software platforms. I hope to all that is holy that they replaced the software entirely. What a nightmare those classes were...
Yes Quartus is complete crap! I wrote some of it.
To be fair, Quartus was way ahead of Xilinx' offering until they leap-frogged it with Vivado.