Is it really safe to put this info on the *outside* of a package these days? :-)

@david The great electronics component shortage of the past year or two made a substantial portion of microcontrollers unobtainable. Products like this were commonly out of stock with long lead times, across their entire product lines.

@david and you had people trying all sorts of shenanigans to get them, like shady brokers or desoldering parts from dev boards.

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