I proceeded to solder in the switches unmodified. I found one broken switch on the index finger home row of the second half which required removing the MCU holder to desolder it and replace it with a working switch. But other than that things went OK. I was able to exceed 80WPM with good accuracy with a minute or two of setting up my keymap which is great. I don't love the switches due to the travel and noise, but I don't hate them. I'm glad they are linear and medium-light spring tension.

Most of the final details got written up into the blog post about this build.