5V flash derivatives with more than 40 pins in 51 family: you tell me how many.

Call the bug what you like, Philips did not have a solution, nor were they loudly advertising the solution that you and Esacedemy created. Even Motorola had a bug in their new QT range of HC08 series and were gracious to admit the flaw to an Indian customer. Glad you are realizing that Philips did a stupid thing.

Precisely my point, this part of the world we don't get those updates of programming algos as easily. With PIC and Motorola, change in algo is not usually customers' headache.

You don't care about simulation does not mean it is useless. You don't know how to use it effectively. It is an important part of a concept called co-design, but you will dismiss that as another catch phrase. Shit has many sources, not just bull. So wrong conclusion can be drawn by many means.

Yes, even with free tools we do get a lot fixes. Same with Motorola, they have good support team for code warrior even in India.

The free samples are sent by Microchip directly, not the dealer/ distributor.

I am not offended by what you call Microchip, neither my nor Microchip's fortunes hinge on your opinion. A newbie getting a non professional answer for a technical query, makes me feel sad. You could have given a more analytic answer, at least listing in brief the specfic drawbacks of PIC, like I did.