@DBISI wrote:
Since it's a USB CDC device, the Baud Rate seems to be ignored. It's not an FTDI device but an ESP32-S2 device.
It's not CDC, it's the circuit on the device.
Baud rate, parity etc. are all settings of the "classical" serial interface like UART, RS232.
In this case, the microcontroller itself contains an USB interface and feeds it with the data to be exchanged, directly. No serial settings necessary.
But often, a dedicated chip like the FTDI232 is used, which communicates with the microcontroller via UART. Then, the settings are necessary.