Thank you, this was actually inspiring. I’d like to imagine I was making a better world before, and will continue to do so with all my strengths.

Maybe Scribus (FOSS) could scratch that itch?

There’s LaserWeb but apparently it doesn’t support closed source (Chinese) firmware so you’d need to change your laser’s controller…

Exactly this. In a federated network, the instance with the majority of users could dictate the protocol, forcing the smaller issues to continually adapt or die. See this post for a very real example of this.