Here's a quote from Eben Upton (CEO of Raspberry Pi Trading, 2023):

“We know what people don’t like about [RP]2040,” Upton admitted at the event, “the [Arm Cortex-]M0+ [architecture], could have more RAM, could have more GPIO [General-Purpose Input/Output], and we know what people do like — the PIO [Programmable Input/Output blocks]… and we have a chip team.”, [0][1]

That doesn't sound too bad, hmm?

[0] https://blog.adafruit.com/2023/12/04/raspberry-pi-hints-at-n...

[1] https://www.hackster.io/news/eben-upton-hints-at-an-rp2040-s...