Still an incredible bargain compared to any US-based production house.

That's always been my problem with buying American. I'd be willing to pay 2x as much to support manufacturers in my own country. Maybe 3x. But 10x-15x as much? EABOD, I'll stick with China. While infuriating, the Trump tariffs are nowhere near enough to alter the outcome of that calculation.

On one project I worked on, we tried sourcing prototype boards from an American supplier and they put a bunch of knock-off parts on it.

Meanwhile our Chinese suppliers were honest with us.

The one benefit the American places are supposed to have, they managed to squander through either sheer greed or incompetence.

I can’t even find somewhere in the US equivalent to JLCPCB for fully populated hobby PCBs!

Plus these are going on high altitude balloons aka throwaway so a lot of people have a hard time spending that