> It is an extremely weird situation, and a deeply bad look

I never followed all the ins and outs but from having a quick look through the comments on https://github.com/platformio/platform-raspberrypi/pull/36 the following happened:

  - Developer independent of RPi opens PR to add RP2040 support to PlatformIO

  - PlatformIO don't want to merge it, expecting some financial contribution to help maintain the support (seems reasonable)

  - They discuss this with RPi, ultimately RPi don't want to pay the asked contributions so that PlatformIO are happy maintaining support (this also seems reasonable)

  - End result is no RP2040 support in PlatformIO

Ultimately maintaining things isn't free. RPi have chosen the development environment(s) they wish to support and it hasn't included PlatformIO. What's weird or a bad look?