Vote with your wallet,
People gotta get good I guess

You can use project babble software with any camera, there's plenty of 3rd party ones to get your hands on until babble ships their units (hopefully their manufacturing partner actually delivers :/ )

I have seen people using literal webcams taped to the front of their headset have good tracking

Yeah nah, it's just that everyone uses a one size fits all template and don't know how their sculpts are driven so the intent gets lost if they don't do it in the one way the template wants you to do it.
Which is going to happen, different styles have different requirements and design guidelines

I don't think someone's beat you to it, it's great x)

Hehe, feel free to reach into my DMs if you need any help with the setup ;)

I talked with the creator to put a sample out here if you want to check it out before you commit:
vrchat.com/home/avatar/...

I also have a kuuta Add-on that I've reworked last week to be on par with what I do nowadays :D

Where can I do so 🥹

yee, freckles textures are nice but it's hard to make sure everyone looks great with a consistent squish if it's not part of the base :'(

behind the scenes :o

Oh yeah, native PCVR is the way to go, even latency wise, you'll love it :D