I bet it does suffer ESD issues. Even “SWR proof” RF BJTs are fragile. Anyway not that it matters really here even for CMOS as the ESD protection is just on the

I bet it does suffer ESD issues. Even “SWR proof” RF BJTs are fragile. Anyway not that it matters really here even for CMOS as the ESD protection is just on the die lands. Most of the devices on the thing don’t have ESD protection on CMOS.