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

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

That sound pretty cool. Any pics of the case?

I've noticed the A5 has some black mesh at the bottom rear. What's that for?

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.

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