Pico v2?

Well if you didn't want BLE you'd still be betting a huge amount more RAM and flash, as well as a reasonably accurate real-time clock and lower power consumption - although the actual execution speed of the chip is lower.

you putting all that work into a product just to have consumers flash it onto cheap Chinese boards

That's the really sad thing about ESP8266/ESP32. I'd love to be able to support them properly, but it's very difficult find a way of paying myself a salary from them.