This indeed a well thought out post but I think having clear image examples would be a good way to emphasive what you mean

...for research purposes of course

Your best bet would be to hope sony releases a new and better-looking ps5 slim somewhere down the road

I think I saw on the sub that reddit was letting the app operate without fees until the new update. I thought reddit stopped doing that when I couldn't log on a few days ago but it seems that things are still going.

I honestly don't know what reddit's mo is

No first hand experience, but I hear that the experience being pretty good. Quality is solid and the cases are stocked, not made to order. You should probably ask on smallformfactor.net/forum . The guy who runs it is on there as well.