There was a mass shortage of Blu-Ray drives not long ago.
Interestingly, it was a perfect storm of drives going OOP at the same time the Japs were being forced onto Windows 11 en masse, which they were doing via full computer upgrades. The country still adores optical media (it's the new fax machine) so users demanded them in new builds.
Available drives were being sold at outrageous markup, nearly 3x what they were a few years ago.
edit: (on the github readme)
OmniDrive is one of the latter.