I think it has more to do with the nature of AVR type projects which is often/mostly hardware control.In my case, if I get a project working (hard- and software), I will leave it alone. (mostly robotica and miniature railway control, I have a huge set of Jouef, the base dating from Christmas 1961 (1962 catalogue), when I was three years old.)In my case, I only do one or two projects a year.Maybe that goes for many programmers.The point is that even the users use the AVR compiler sporadically. So therefor feedback is also sporadically.Can that be the case?
If your choice is AVR (ATmega, ATtiny) then the only free, non-limited Pascal compiler might be FreePascal
Thank you @avra, that means that the most recent version is free?