If you're unhappy about the backlight, you can always choose to pay the exact same amount for one without the LEDs while paying the exact same amount. I'm sure Vortex/KBC won't mind.
Some people even go through the trouble of installing these by themselves with a soldering iron after the fact.
And besides they can be turned off if you don't want the bonus glowing aesthetics. The board even remembers your setting through power cycles.
The stock ABS keycaps that come with pokers are mediocre anyhow and the PBT caps coming with this drop should be significantly better. You can use what you saved for some decent custom transparent keycaps considering one of the selling points of this board is customization and you are probably going to switch them out anyhow sooner or later.
I already have a set of alternate keycaps waiting for mine.
And besides they can be turned off if you don't want the bonus glowing aesthetics. The board even remembers your setting through power cycles.
The stock ABS keycaps that come with pokers are mediocre anyhow and the PBT caps coming with this drop should be significantly better. You can use what you saved for some decent custom transparent keycaps considering one of the selling points of this board is customization and you are probably going to switch them out anyhow sooner or later. I already have a set of alternate keycaps waiting for mine.