It made the connector routing so much easier. Otherwise I'd have to swizzle lanes in all kinds of awkward ways with lots of mid-span vias and criscrossing. It's much cleaner this way.
@azonenbergAndrew Zonenberg have you seen this one weird trick to reduce the number of vias in your PCB design?
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