No way this is just a matter of paying a freelancer $50K. If that was it then System76 would have done it and someone would be rich from selling a closed source

No way this is just a matter of paying a freelancer $50K. If that was it then System76 would have done it and someone would be rich from selling a closed source driver already. And software doesn't even touch the problem that most of what's wrong with non-Mac touchpads is the universally lousy hardware.