nah, i appreciate the comments, seriously i do.
I do think the vinyl+acrylic combo is great though with tons of possible designs. I also think my ****ty phone camera doesn't do it justice.
the massdrop aluminium is just really bad, it sucks so bad, it started as this rough metal case that was super ugly, so i sanded it and polished it to a near mirror finish, but that ended up a bad idea. its so much work to get it clean and somewhat looking decent but it scratches with just a finger nail, smudges easy, it has rough areas that i would need some serious machinery to sand out, it really does't look good in every angle. All the pictures i took are of a decent angle and i cleaned it a bit before taking the pictures, minutes later it has smudges on it. and the rough spots are still there on the sides as it came with.
I'm sure i could have someone finish the aluminium case but the cost of all the things required to get to just anodizing is pretty high, and i would need to de-solder the switches. Or i could have new top and bottoms cut but that is more cost as well. I would rather have a entirely new case solution created instead like a plate-less tray for light travel.
i am going to leave this faux carbon fiber ErgoDox like this for now and use it as my primary; I need to cool off on buying things like more vinyl. I guess i'm more asking is it decent enough to leave it like this for a bit. I like these switches better too.