I'll definitely be reading this thankyou! I think this would have been a much better way to approach it, it's a bit of a joke in the piece that I always do things the hard way, but it's a genuine mystery to me why I operate this way.

I should add I have an EE degree (but have never worked as an EE), so even though I don't know industry standards like this sky130 thing, it's not completely foreign to me.