Perhaps I've been deceived by how "simple" the schematics for the Pi compute module look, and overconfident after my first experience designing PCBs. There doesn't _seem_ to be that much (that I would need) actually routed on the pi compute module (hdmi, audio, etc, etc, etc)
I always seem to forget about NXP family of chips, but indeed NXP seems to do an amazing job of supporting their products and pricing competitively.
Again, my sincere thanks <3