Dude hasn't even built his own keyboard, definitely not an obsession

And those look like default keycaps. If someone hasn't developed strong opinions on materials and double-shot markings, they're still at the "only on weekends when I've been drinking" stage.

I think obsession requires you lamenting what's wrong with a keyboard you already built and how you're going to fix it all 'next time'.

Although if you can hold forth on how to find old keyboards on eBay, that may also qualify.

More along the lines of what I was expecting to see here.

I have to admit, I was expecting something different when I saw the title.

Just one of my hand-build, custom switch, aluminium-case, custom-firmware,"artisan" keycap, mechanical keyboards would buy all of those on OPs list, probably twice over.

It's good that OP is keeping a lid on their keyboard buying habits (as with anything), but realistically, OP isn't even in the same _universe_ as the people with the _real_ unhealthy keyboard habits.

There are/were people on the mechanical keyboard sub-reddit whose keyboard collections reach into the tens of thousands of dollars.

Compared to a lot of programmers here, I totally agree (but my parents and girlfriend might disagree).

But gotta generate that clickbait headline ;)