Nope, takes longer than ordering the PCBs and parts separately. The card itself is consciously designed so that any person with at least moderate soldering skills can build oneself.
Even before I knew of them, though, I've made an effort to neatly run cabling in PCs I've assembled over the years mainly for three reasons: so they look nice, are easy to work on, and have good airflow so they stay cool.
Even though nobody will see it, it makes me feel good somehow (one exception: I actually took a PC I built to the local computer shop back in 2008 or so when I was doubting my abilities (I was experiencing a very difficult crashing problem that I was hoping they could help me solve; a couple years later, I learned it was due to an unseemly combination of a particularly bad power source and a defective piece of hardware), and the technicians there were quite impressed with how neat and tidy it was).
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