My phone kicking the bucket has made it difficult to keep up with comments on all my threads, so I'll try to cover notable stuff since the last update.
Seems that most of the interest here is keeping this fairly plain in the interest of cost. To that extent, I think The current base kit is where it needs to be to do this: good compatibility with just a touch of accents. GMK charges a flat fee per color that's included in the kit, therefore cutting the base kit here down by removing the orange should have brought the price down enough to justify the increased compatibility.
Currently I have the set mocked up with text only mods. I enjoy text only, but I know mod options are pretty controversial, so I'll check what the opinion is on that.
Still no plan for VIM arrows. That'd be five dupes in the kit that the majority of people won't be using and that don't add any alternate layout support, so "dead" keys for the most part.
ISO is a touchy subject. I personally am of the opinion that minimal ISO support is a small price to pay in order to open the set up for a not insignificant proportion of people in the community. At the minimum I advocate carrying the bare four keys needed to physically support any number of ISO layouts even though the legends won't. Currently in the base I have a total of nine keys for ISO support and I think that's fine, but if need be I can poll if people would like to pinch ~$2-$3 from cutting back.
Accents are also a bit of a situation to work with. I figure the four simple ones in the base kit are fine for now. In regards to the RGB ones, I'm not sure what exactly to do with them right now. If I cut that kit down to like Esc and Enters and kept them as a single kit, that could work as well. Maybe a separate buy for the accents would be good, but also consider the fact that as a child kit they only need 100 MOQ instead of the 150 MOQ as a separate buy. There's always costs and benefits to each choice in kits.
I'll leave with a couple of polls to see where we stand on some of this
RGB Accents -
https://www.strawpoll.me/15889870Mods -
https://www.strawpoll.me/15889895If I missed anything lemme know and I'll try to catch it next time I have a chance.