Re: Re: Hello, I must be going . . .

You have missed the point. The MSP430 is not for teaching how to use microcontrollers, the point is for engineers to develop products that take advantage of the ultra low power consumption, stability and flexibility. 

 If you want to learn Arduino, feel free, but no one is ever building one into anything that is designed for mass production. For that, you need the chip to be small, reliable, cheap, flexible, and based on a set of professional development tools and debugging capabilities.