As long as the RPi foundation keeps messing around with their supplies, reserving the lions share for “corporate” customers, I’ll stick to espressif devices. I can get a bag of them for the cost of one of these

Did they ever fix the GPIO issue?

I have had a horrible experience with JLPCB. Paid 150 euro for 5 boards, only 3 of them working, got 8 dollars coupon for next purchase.