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Yeah, this is great if you're making your own PCBs -- all you need is the ESP32 module, power supply and a USB connector.

There's no need for a usb-serial converter, JTAG connector (you can debug over USB), or a serial header with yet another random pinout that you have to figure out every time you want to program the thing...

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Exactly! Our board at work got all our JTAG pins back for us to use for other things, and we got a more robust programming/debugging setup to boot. So nice. The S3 is phenomenal, and the LX7 on it is surprisingly powerful too.

Nice. They also tidied up the GPIOs a lot, which is such a good quality of life improvement (though I did spend a while hunting through the datasheet looking for the bit where they tell you that GPIO7 can only be used as an output during a full moon, or whatever).

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