Those esp32-s3’s are super hot right now. Lots of improvements over the older esp32’s like the ability to assign any set of pins to your SPI bus. Previously there were a fixed set of pins you could use.
Back on the 8266 it was even worse as there were a lot of gpio pins you couldn’t use at all!
The S3 also has a built in hardware debugger accessible with its new built in USB pins. Previously you had to attach an external jtag debugger.
The one thing I’ve noticed is the S3 is a bit of a “breaking” hardware revision and things like the arduino pin library haven’t quite caught up yet to some of the new features. Things like WLED or FastLED haven’t caught up quite yet either.