Just a quick one - thought folks may be interested in my current use case for the Pico Omnibus - makes a really good base for debugging using a second Pico running picoprobe - gives access to all (OK, most) of the GPIO pins easily, whilst still letting you use a Pico Pack:
I much prefer C / C++ to MicroPython and actually being able to properly step through code makes learning / using the various Pimoroni pico packs quite a bit of fun.