westfw:
A pessimistic and cynical summary of the Arduino-day talks ( https://youtu.be/UjeIbeDLhQY?t=3h27m ) might be something like "we're changing our target audience from the original students, artists, and hobbyists to the more profitable set containing Educational Institutions and wanna-be Entrepreneurs. Ie, from people who want to make things, to people who want to make money."
I can't think of a more sorry target audience than Educational Institutions. The whitepaper on Arduino technology for my institution (the largest community college district in the universe) still lists arduino.org as the preferred vendor for Arduino technology.
Fortunately, I qualified Sparkfun, DFRobot, Pololu, SeeedStudio, Osepp, Arduino.cc and Adafruit as vendors years ago.