> By banning the device, a country would be setting back their workforce of engineers and scientists a bit.

You're pulling a "Think of the children" here. Rest of your comment is fine, but this first statement doesn't hold water. Any incredibly small number of engineers and scientists would ever use this device. A Raspberry PI, Ardiuno, or other general purpose micro controllers and small form computing devices sure, I could believe that. But some niche device, no.

Edit: I wasn't aware of the popularity of the device, as suggested by comment below, when I wrote this