> I would tend to trust an Arduino more than an ESP in critical infrastructure.
Arduino has always come across to me as being for hobbyist/beginner/learning, and critical infra would use things more like, for example, STMicro or Texas Instruments microcontrollers
Wasn't the whole project started because a professor was unhappy with the state of hardware for the schoolroom?
That said, maybe they have a future being a standard component in industrial settings. I would tend to trust an Arduino more than an ESP in critical infrastructure.