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Hello. I have seen in multiple footprints of ESP32-S3-WROOM-1U that there are vias around the central ground plane like in this image
(https://ibb.co/vLcg8hp)
What is the use of this? And can I just remove them, or at least put them on the ground pins? I'm getting A LOT OF rule errors because of these vias.

What is the use of this?

It's to connect the 9 pads to the GND.
I'm guessing your getting errors because your are just placing via's there with no connection.
You need to connect these vias to the pads.

Thank you. I also was assuming these should be connected to GND, but the footprint I got had all those vias connected to nothing, causing KiCad to give lots of DRC errors.