Hi there,
So I made it through Robot man 's mono tone schpiel. 
…and Have been speaking to this debacle IMO for a while now as it creates a dev support problem for many.
what a nice way to say Espressif “GAVE it to US” with not even the courtesy of reach-around 
LOL
ALL in the name of ESP-IDF 5.3 I say F.U. 
to that strong arm 
-. 
- tactic. I hope everyone switches to PlatformIO… "Ride the Back of ARDUINO IDE too fame and fortune $$ then DUMP them for some PIE (no pun intended) in the SKY vision that will NEVER be! 
Leaving 100K dev’s “SOL” 
with no other choices… That SUX ! Some of the 3rd party LIB’s will never be updated and can’t those authors are DEAD! 8266 ring a bell you clowns…
I will continue to test and play with them, but I will NEVER put them in a production product because there are WAY better options available. (NORDIC)
HTH
GL 
PJ 
they are just so CHEEEEP! 