Tangential: Is there any community for mice akin to the mechanical keyboard community?

Would love to buy an alternative but every time I do any research it boils down to "razer or logitech" with everything else being orders of magnitude shittier.

"Oooh! we wanna help the environment! Look at how green we are! It's gonna last you a lifetime. Such quality. Such emotional investment into your personal mouse!"

Bitch! You are just inventing stupid ideas about how to turn a hardware company into a service company, because you know that is where the money is.

Even assuming that I wasn't put off by having a subscription for a physical object, how could it possibly be financially viable for me to do that.

It would be cheaper for me to simply buy a new mouse every 4 or 5 years, and realistically I don't replace my mice that often. It's a mouse they don't really get to be that expensive even if you go for all the optional bells and whistles.

Vance Packard warned us, in his book, The Waste Makers.

forever subscription, you say?

To be fair they only said having a subscription for the accompanying software was a 'possibility', not that it would need one, and that it would be likely to be in the ~$200 price range, and with upgradeability and repairability in mind, as well as reliant on software updates.

Honestly depending on how much they lean toward the subscription and/or software update reliance having a mouse designed to last a lifetime and be upgradeable and repairable would be nice, even at a rather higher price point.

Oh no, anyway. Glad I never touched their peripherals because they're overpriced like Razer and other bigger companies.

clicking away with my knockoff OEM reliable gaming mouse

Imo software update for Mouse is not that necessarily crucial unless you had nasty bugs like Cooler Master during launching their mouse. My endgame mouse is MM712 and happy with that👍🏼

Also you can build your own mouse though iirc may be harder than building DIY keyboard (sc: built custom macropad for college project).