Is that as important for a microcontroller, though? It's not like Linux on an SoC, where the pain is vendor kernels that are buggy, incomplete, and/or outdated.
Just look at all the plug and play breakout boards available for this at launch. This is going to be huge for kids learning microcontroller programming (which is of course the pi foundation's raison d'etre.
It is for people just starting out.
Arduino runs on ESP8266 and ESP32 chips. It’s a nice introduction to that world, with hardware that’s so inexpensive that it removes the fear of damaging something with a bad connection.