I'm impressed you managed to penetrate his infamously thick skin
I thought about it some more. The guts of Mimby seem be around $200, $50 less than the full price by losing the case, the optical and coax inputs, and the wall wart, but Bimby still has the two inputs, so make that maybe $220. Eitr is $179, but we don't need the case and its wall wart, so make that $150 or something. So $370 for a naked Bimby without a power supply and without upgradeability. Asgard 2 has the case, and presumably a good power supply as well, but also a volume knob which Bimby doesn't need and, well, the whole amp thing. So maybe $150 for the parts we need? Makes $520 for a fully dressed Bimby, but without upgradeability. $80 more for that, and we're at $600. Obviously my numbers are probably off here and there, but we're in the same ballpark.
Alright. Not that surprising, actually. A shame, but it does make sense now. Let's hope Schiit's custom USB implementation is not just smaller than gen 5 USB, but also cheaper.