FPGA vendors are in a tight spot, thanks to their customers. Their customers want better silicon, so they're forced to allocate their resources toward R&D, rather than making their software tools better. If you look at the Xilinx jobs page, you'll see maybe ONE job related to software tools programming, which is shocking given the complexity of Vivado/Vitis.
If some FPGA company comes along and throws out conventional market wisdom (the old Henry Ford quote seems pertinent: "If I'd asked customers what they wanted, they would have said "a faster horse"") and makes a FPGA with software tools that are fast, non-buggy, with good UI/UX, I think they would be able to steal significant market share. Early FPGA patents should be expiring by now...
If some FPGA company comes along and throws out conventional market wisdom (the old Henry Ford quote seems pertinent: "If I'd asked customers what they wanted, they would have said "a faster horse"") and makes a FPGA with software tools that are fast, non-buggy, with good UI/UX, I think they would be able to steal significant market share. Early FPGA patents should be expiring by now...