Are all ESP32's created the same??

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We would certainly applaud anyone who tries, but the reality of having two cores and a plethora of complex communication protocols (WiFi, BT, BLE) plus the layers on top of it (LWIP) make it much, much easier to approach problems from a thead-based point of view, hence our choice of FreeRTOS instead of 'bare-metal'.