I'm sort of amazed that large segmented #LCD displays still exist as a new-business thing in 2026.

Family member just got a new exercise bike and it has a white-on-blue screen full of illegible tiny words and glyphs, with all the smeary charm and poor viewing angles of a 1989 Toshiba T1000.

Considering that each design is one-off, I can't imagine it's cheaper to do a short run of bespoke panels than to just use a commodity 640x480 TFT module and spend a nickel on a bigger MCU to drive it.