But then how would others in the channel interact with my Soundboard and trigger it?

They don’t, they’d use their own soundboard. Also what kind of audio are you playing that needs to be more than 64kbps?

It seems you are pretty stuck on the soundboard as an individual feature instead of a sever feature that works regardless of me being around or participating on that server.

A soundboard is an individual feature. There’s a difference between a soundboard and Discord’s audio reacts regardless of what Discord calls them.

My argument was more around feature users now expect in a noIM platform.

A soundboard hosted by the platform provider is probably the last feature I’d care about from a noIM platform, but I guess I’m not the target audience.