Here is a great Digi-Key blog article about the futre of programmable logic design, and evaluating the problem that current programmable logic systems make programming more complicated than it should be for setting up simple logic circuits. It also introduces some existing software solutions that can simplify programmable logic design.
20200407/https://www.digikey.com/en/blog/the-next-generation-of-programmable-logic-developer
Also, another interesting fact that this article points out is that there are 8-bit microcontrollers are the majority of microcontrollers sold, both in customer count and in number of units sold.