>I want to reverse-engineer the firmware on this keyboard but who has the time for that.
It is not attributing time that is a problem it's that you probably have other tasks to do and even if you know that the new task that you want to do would have benefits you know that it will be very time consuming and you'll have to delay other tasks witch will probably frustrate you.
Time is cruel. https://loadaverage.org/attachment/5973883