Makes sense, thanks for your thoughts!
I spent $10 on a USB WIFI device when one of my old laptop’s wifi card was dying, even if it doesn’t work out of the box, I’m good 
yes, that was in the old days, nowadays most laptops wifi cards are recognized automatically, specially framework which are designed with Linux in mind.
I got 4 usb-c for everyday running and 1 hdmi.
The reason for this is that I’m coming from an all usb-c laptop so I already have dongles for everything else but hdmi.
If I had known about the shipping charge to just order expansion cards I would have picked up at least a USB-a to make installing Linux a little easier (I use an old USB-a drive).
My 2 cents:
In practice and hindsight, I should have only bought 3x USB C and 1x USB A and nothing else.
The other modules I got just take up space in my bag; I almost never use them. Some, like the RJ45 Gigabit Ethernet module are still sealed in the box. It’s pretty hard not to find some way to get something done with USB C and USB A ports. For example, for microSD use, it’s easier for me to quickly use a microSD-to-USB-A adapter with the Framework USB A module, because I only need to work with a microSD card for a short time and very rarely. A lot of times, I can hook whatever device has the microSD card in it directly up to the laptop with a USB cable, such as my portable game console or camera. It’s faster to do this than swap out the Framework module.
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