Stop whining. They’re trying to help give you training wheels. They’re responding with their experience, and you’re being hypercritical about semantics.

If you go to a medical expert complaining about pain, do you get offended when they tell you how to fix it? And for the natural response “they aren’t doctors”, well (a) they may be and (b) if you really want the level of help you’d expect from a medical professional, perhaps don’t ask the internet.

No blanks and limited, expensive kitting. I want to try it, but probably never will.

This. I ended up removing the middle and lower corner switches to get down to 34 keys.

Great looking board! Glad you’re enjoying it!