i thought the developer experience gap was bad until i had to wire together a DSLR, teleprompter, teleprompter display, mic and lighting. how has someone not packaged all of this up in a single vendor solution yet?

There is so much room for improvement in video tech. You should chat with @aaronpk about his work to streamline live streaming of videos at conferences and on the fly editing. There are a lot of fiddly bits which he worked out into a nice package for himself, but it was not easy.

Yeah there's a lot to it, there isn't really a one size fits all which is likely why this isn't more packaged up. And even if there was, it'd be really expensive, likely way out of the price range of what people expect.

i get that lighting and so on is highly variable, but for camera/teleprompter/screen i would pay a lot of money to not have to not wire it together myself. put it all in a box with an optional tripod and they’d sell.

you say that, but even within the camera/teleprompter/screen category there's so many different options. Do you want a DSLR? webcam? How about the screen, is it a generic monitor? iPad?

speaking for myself, if my options were to make all those choices myself or buy a box where those choices were made for me by someone who actually knew what they were doing, i'd opt for the latter