In the past I've worked for a company who wanted to design Genesys part into a portable paper scanner. It was an absolute nightmare getting anybody to talk to us (not me an individual but a real company), simply because our volumes were not expected to be the 10 million pcs a year they wanted. I looked on ebay as well- there are Chinese companies selling these chips, but none had QFP version, only TSSOP. Seeing how I don't really need three functional USB ports, I am pretty happy with the solution.
One place for improvement is picking a proper ESD array. The one I used is good maybe up to Full Speed devices, but will add too much capacitance for the High Speed ones. I am just a bit lazy for a brute force scan of all manufacturers. Digikey/Mouser search did not yield SOT143 devices with four channels outside of the one I already used. It also does not appear to mater for streaming Video from a thumb drive- the effective data rate is still good enough.
It just annoys me that with anything you buy these days, you have to take it apart and populate parts that somebody decided are not needed, or things go boom in normal use.. Almost sounds like what Soviet cars used to be (and maybe still are). Once you finally pick your shiny new car after waiting for it for like 20 years in the line, you had to go over and tighten every bolt just to make sure nothing falls off
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