You can mount the display easily. Even if you'd cut out neat holes for the buttons it wouldn't have looked that good before, and wouldn't have worked well with a thick front panel.
You can make a cool laser-cut case with pressable buttons. I'll be releasing one soon hopefully or at the very least making the files available.
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Yes - moving the switches has a few good side-effects...