Agree, but there's also the psychological impact of having spent over 200 smackers on this thing and then letting it go unused lol

This only works if you can get people to spend over $200, which is the part I'm skeptical of.

But who knows, maybe I'm overestimating people's intelligence.

That's the key, a physical object is much more easily made part of a devs identity.

Projecting a hacker image has become very fashion based. e.g., some devs love their clickity-clackity keyboards with LEDs, others have those all-blacks ones with nothing on the keys.