Honestly I thought I'd be bothered by the size of the flashcart too, instead it's pretty much not a problem in any case (maybe except the Micro) and I'm almost always playing on my GBA SP
Obviously I've not used the cart, but pictures put it the same size as drill dozer and other oversized carts, which I have and get annoyed by.
The thing is that the current price is NOT premium (premium is what you'd pay for the Everdrive 64 v3, the SD2SNES or the Mega Everdrive v2, which are the premium versions of cheaper flashcards)
For a GBA cart, I'd argue it's premium. Compared to other carts, GBA games are relativly simple (I'm not saying building a cart is before anyone jumps on me), and outside extra hardware like solar sensor/rumble, there's not much to take into consideration on a per game basis.
There's no mappers like gb/gbc, there's no custom chips like snes, N64 apparently has something in some games (a couple of games are compatible with the v3, but not the 2.5). Those carts you mention, sd2snes supports most custom chips, the n64 v3 supports the few games that the 2.5 doesn't and mega everdrive has stuff like ram cart for cd games. Outside of that it's dev stuff like usb.
So for a system that is relative simple compared to the others, I'd make the arguement that $100 is a premium price.
An Everdrive X7 is coming out, it seems, and I'm pretty sure that one will be a dual-sided PCB. Obviously expect it to come with a price premium
Me thinks it'll cost around 160-200$ like the other premium Flashcarts Krikzz builds. Is it worth it paying almost double the price just to not have it stick? I'll leave this up to the users' judgement
I would, I wouldn't be happy about it, as I think a GBA cart being GBA sized should be in the "value" version, but if it's the only way to get a modern gba cart that can match features with my old ones (RTC), then I don't really have a choice.
I just don't like that anyone complaining about the price is instantly being put thrown in as being "too cheap" (for a lot of people, especially those coming from ds carts, it may be true), but not for everyone. Same deal with the size, it just seems a lot of users don't like any criticism on the cart/price, simply because it's krikzz, a small independent, rather than a faceless company. Same deal that goes on in the 3ds section (with GW taking stuff, but not crediting, but people are fine with it the otherway round). It doesn't make for good a discussion on the cart.