Divorce, not necessarily.

Just because YOU use the fast parts from whoever sells them, on a new custom PCB each time, doesn't mean everybody can do that.

I'm wiring up a circuit right now, the purpose of which is to verify a claim made by someone who has a problem they posted on this forum.

I don't know how you could justify doing something like that with one or another of the SiLabs parts that you like if you didn't have a board that already had that particular part on it.

Recommending a change in what a person wants is a touchy thing. There's a reason he wants it, and it has to do, in part, with something I know to be near and dear to your heart, namely being proven or at least accepted as being right.

I like being right too, and, as it happens, that includes having my designs work as I predict. If I were to ask a question about how to make some unfamiliar device work, it wouldn't help me to have someone suggest I use a different part. My task is to use THAT part. I may not even have decided it's a good idea, though I probably indicated it seemed possible.

Learners come to this forum, often with legitimate queries. They deserve to have them addressed, either in the form of a "go do your own homework" or with a sufficiently detailed response. "Use different technology" is not what I'd consider kind or appropriate.

RE