1. I/O isn't that bad, 40-100 GPIOs out, pretty much on par with most Artix-7 boards out there, SFP and PCIe is a plus cause Artix chips have no/slow transceivers and simply can't use them, and well everything aside from tutorials aren't beginner thing on FPGAs
2. License is pain though, you can get a proper demo license for Kintex probably
3. Compile times for barebones projects are few times more for a larger FPGAs, but as you add IPs and stuff they take a few minutes on a fastest computer anyway
2. License is pain though, you can get a proper demo license for Kintex probably
3. Compile times for barebones projects are few times more for a larger FPGAs, but as you add IPs and stuff they take a few minutes on a fastest computer anyway