"Unless you can dumb it down to a point where people can use it without reading a 1000+ page datasheet"
Not sure where these misconceptions come from, the beginners guide is the same size as the arduino one.
The real time debugging makes it super easy to find problems, also with most programers using Visual studio there's far more help out there then even arduino. Its true that they don't have all the community that's been built around the arduino but its growing. The software is actually much easier to use then the arduino you don't need to build complicated state machines or timers to get basic programs working or add computers because of no built in multitasking. The hardware is not the only problem I see, but also a programing environment that's old and almost obsolete.