Exactly. I’ve heard of HQ’s driver and have glanced at it (this one ?), but I’m not good at soldering a whole pcb’s worth of SMD components. Maybe I just need to break down and get a reflow station. And I imagine not a whole lot of us have rework stations. Soldering a driver and star together is one thing, but I imagine the group of people comfortable enough to assemble their own drivers is much smaller. Also, how do you source all of the components? Harvest them from another board? Try to locate all of them at Mouser / Arrow / etc?
I’m not trying to put up walls. For the sake of learning, I’d be up for trying to assemble one. But either way, it’d be nice if they were readily available pre-assembled.