The ESP32 is a beloved microcontroller from Espressif, offering quite a lot in a small, very cheap package. Yet as you may already know, there are lots of different kinds of ESP32, and it can be hard ...
I'm a big fan of the ESP32, and I have a few different boards that I play around with. I have two of the "classic" ESP32 microcontrollers, an ESP32-C6 with Zigbee and Thread support, and an ESP32-S3.