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ESP8266s can be used for a lot of things that people use RPi for... and they are a lot cheaper.

I just sold 2 used RPi that I bought ~10 years ago for more then what I paid for them brand new...

I've been wondering about that myself, but then it's occured to me that there are very poor countries where kids simply don't have access to no computers at all. The appeal of Pi in this situation is that you can program and prototype on the thing, and it's relatively affordable (well, at least it is supposed to be). For ESPs you'd need a separate device to write and upload the code.

yeah, ESPs aren't general purpose computers but they are still very capable (I used one as a "router" before to create a network in my car: https://github.com/martin-ger/esp_wifi_repeater)

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