I managed to avoid that trap since this board mounts the controller upside-down. But I did end up buying a different controller so I wouldn't have to de-soldered the headers from the first I got

I felt so stupid when I realized it, it was too different when I put in that diode and I didn't think too much about it, just glad I didn't kill my pro micro

I've been building a qaz and stuck with my keyboard not working for a few days, I de-soldered the micro controller and double checked it and it worked fine. Put it back on the board and it just heats up and does nothing. Doing that there was a short and found it was one diode I soldered in that was to blame, you can see it hanging out right now in the middle of the picture. I ended up soldering it in since the instructions said to solder diodes in with an orientation based on the square pads. Well little did I know that that set of pins is a debug header and not for Diodes, the original design of the board even has markings for that but no they had to remove the useful information.

If they made it easy to add animations to it, that would be a form of modding it, though not in a way that would affect typing characteristics, which I wonder how nice it'll be to type on, somehow I suspect it'll be some type of membrane keyboard

Awwww their not real switches, I used a few of the novel key switches in projects and they work great as big thunk switches

It would be fun to try one out at a keyboard meetup or other tech event, but not as practical to own

RGB enthusiasts final form?