1769-L16er-BB1B same for both quotes, and I wasn't buying from an RA distributor, so one part of the problem is "RA own the market and no one apart from our approved sales channel can get involved".
CCW was a bit of a MS issue, first tried it on my Hyper-V setup laptop, instant regret. Changed to VM Workstation Pro and less issues, but still, it's meant to be for entry level stuff.
Most installers come with the tick box exercise, or the master tick box installs everything. With CCW I had to get separate installers, unzip, run different installers. Compared to installing MySQL as an example, if it doesn't have it you just click 'execute' and it goes and gets it.
Do you think you will see a Micro850 (or similar) in 2055? I don't. There's other threads on this forum about their hardware locking up for no valid reason.
My local RA distributor don't stock much, they stated 5 days lead time. On a prior project (5069-CPX), they stated 10 days, it took 5 weeks. JIT manufacturing?
I didn't call them evil. Just stating I'm in the same boat of comparing alternatives.