The feature is 45 lines of code, not $200 of hardware. Why players run SOCD on the board they already own.
New keyboard: $175–200. Software tools: anti-cheat risk. The honest comparison — including the free option.
Mandatory on leverless controllers, banned in CS2 matchmaking, legal in Valorant. The rules, the modes, and the hardware.
A $250 leverless and the keyboard on your desk are the same input concept. The gap is a 45-line script.
Software macro tools are OS-bound and fragile. Write Lua once, run it on any OS — or in dedicated hardware.
Windows-only, breaks on elevated windows, scripts die with updates. Why macros moved to Lua.
Great app — on the one Mac it's licensed to. Cross-OS macros, versionable scripts, free.
Before you spend $180–250, answer these five. One of them might save you the whole purchase.