If I have one wish for AMD, I wish that they would make FPGAs (and Xilinx) a more open and diverse platform like the PC. Not that the PC is perfect (there's still closed-source firmware), but any improvement to the current state of FPGAs would be welcomed.

What’s wrong with current state except that the chips have lead time of 52+ weeks?

The development side. Compiling and simulating your Verilog/VHDL can be done with open source software, but to put it on the FPGA itself, you generally need closed source (and sometimes paid) tools to generate the bitstreams. Contrast that with microcontrollers such as the ATMega which can be programmed from start to finish using an entirely FOSS stack - even the bootloader and programmer. And for some reason, these companies consider the bitstream formats trade secrets and refuse to document them at all.

this is true in general but

1) vivado webpack edition (ie free) lets you write (and flash) a bitstream for some of the small chips. i know it at least works for the artix-7 family because i'm doing it every day lately

2) for the artix-7 (and some lattice chips) you supposedly can use OSS (https://github.com/SymbiFlow/prjxray). i haven't tried it yet but one problem i can foresee is that the OSS tools won't infer stuff like brams and dsp. in fact the symbiflow people (i think?) explicitly call this out as the part of the project that's a work in progress.

some useful links:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.10407

https://github.com/YosysHQ/nextpnr

https://www.rapidwright.io/