A handful of reasons<p>* Power consumption<p>* Maybe your overall budget is less that $10 for everything<p>* Size: one project I&#x27;m working on has a 1.5x2.0&quot; space available for electronics<p>* Start time. Maybe you need to get in control within 50mS of power on before that actuator starts flailing wildly around.<p>* Control over the entire stack. You can&#x27;t always trust the code running underneath you.<p>I could go on, but you get the gist...