So, there's a short story behind my decision to standardize the cracked glass bezels on the Tetanus Booster, and to a lesser degree the largely non-starter release of the Mudlark Mk3.
It boils down to the substantial time and money savings I faced by shifting those designs over to surface mount assemblies that were then built by robots. No longer burdened with as much labor per built unit, I had a few choices to make. I could simply change nothing externally and just proceed as if nothing had changed. From a pure business perspective, this was the winning option. Less sunk costs paired with the same asking price results in more profits.
In the event anyone has paid attention, it's probably already known I'm not a driven businessman.
I rest easier while maintaining a certain value for a certain transaction, and tilting the table in my favor like that didn't sit well. Non-option, moving on.
The second notion was to reduce the asking price. This too embodies aspects that I'm trying to avoid. Small batch anything going cut-rate is dodgy. I know how I would react if I bought something for (as an unrelated example) $100 one day, only for that to become $80 the following week. It would induce a grudge, I'm only human - I do take note of that sort of thing. This, by the way, is why I do not do "sales". Another dead branch on my option tree.
So, I found a way to sink some more time and improve the aesthetics a bit through the inclusion of the cracked glass LED bezel. It is not without drawbacks, I will admit. Strong external light such as sunshine or stage lighting does make readability difficult, but freaking out in a dark room? Magnificent. Or, at least it was magnificent; I'm phasing them out for now.
The reason? My costs have gone up to the point at which the initial value gap I was offsetting has pretty much gone away due to tariffs and the ancillary fees that have sprung up around them. It is in the effort of not raising my prices while everyone stateside is getting squeezed that the beautification project is put on indefinite hiatus. At the time of writing, there remain three of the PCBA Tetanus Booster circuits in house, and in all honesty I'm tempted to keep one of them as I'm not sure they're ever coming back.