Xiao esp32c3 won't upload programs unless I'm in bootloader mode

Yea, I’d sure like to see them address the issue too, for me it’s a show stopper. It’s not present in other ESP’s I’ve used. During development I’ll do a zillion uploads and I’m just not going thru the button sequencing required a zillion times no matter how much I like the hardware.
FWIW Before I ordered I asked the question about there being an onboard antenna like many (all?) other ESP32s have and never got a response on that so I suspect they just clam up if it’s something they don’t want to fess up to. Probably a space issue being the device is so small. Understandable. The antenna is not really a big deal to me but they could have answered the question.