I get that. I would be extremely useful for me (who has not soldered a single Teensy onto something yet because I do the same) to have at least 2 or three octocoplers and multiplexers on the controller because I use...
Hm, I am not sure, if Paul should start adding peripheral features to the Teensy that are completely unrelated to the CPU and its environment. You need a Lipo Charger, another one needs a little piezo speaker, someone...
Cannot really see on my phone what string class you use, but stren is for char arrays that build a string. I’m am quite sure there are functions like empty() len() or size() on it.