the kit design is somewhat perplexing
-no numpad alphas in the brown alphas kit, making them useless for fullsize/1800/etc
-brown spacebars separated from the brown alphas kit, so if you'd want an all-brown set you'd need to get both the brown alphas and spacebars ($95)
Hey Hiney!
You make excellent points. I responded on Reddit already with this:
1) there simply hasn't been really and desire around dark numpad. I wouldn't need two hands to count the number of people who requested it and we made the decision to not include it simply out of being cost conscious and MOQ concerns, trying not to add a ton of price to the dark alphas. We put the ISO and numpad kits together in one kit for the same MOQ concerns, splitting them off from base to hopefully help with base kit cost.
2) this is the same scenario as above, really. There had been a few spacebar kits that put the mod colored spacebar into them and assumed that trend would continue, which is why they're int that kit on top of applying the same reasoning above as to hopefully keep the dark alphas kit cost lower, being concerned for MOQ with there not being sub-legends or anything to really "sell" them other than the color.
I'm certain there are many different kit layouts we could have done and I'm sure I would do slightly differently if there's ever a future set I work on or design; however, the decisions we made were based, in part, on the above logic and trying to appeal to the largest possible audience, while still giving options to some of the less popular layouts (not that full size/1800 isn't popular, just that dark numpad wasn't desired by many).
Again, valid points, we just chose a different direction. And, all that being said - if there is appetite for it, we are open to altering kits to make it more favorable for those interested.
P.S. Excited for your board!
