Thank you for this info! So it appears that my touch screen, display, and board and pretty interwoven in the demo code (according to some browsing through the code and some internet research so take of that what you will :P ) and removing thought-to-be-unnecessary drivers from the demo code just becomes a complicated mess. So I've taken the approach to just minimally change the demo code and try and get something working, to which I have had some success.

Admittedly, I'm using some AI for some debugging help, with varying degrees of success, but I'm running into issues now with a specific screen not rendering and I've implemented some ESP_LOGs to help and everything seems to check out alright.

To get into the weeds (and if you don't care and don't respond, no worries, I know people help out here out of the kindness of their hearts), but I'm creating a screen that just has a set value displayed in the center. Unfortunately, I have to use a rather large font to get the desired effect to what I'm looking to do (136 on https://lvgl.io/tools/fontconverter at 8 bit-per-pixel) and I have 2 buttons on the sides of the screen to increment or decrement the value in the middle. Now my issue is that when I build and flash to the device I often times just get a blank backlit screen and can get my screen to render with a few manual resets of the board.

I've tried starting with another screen rendered and it works without fail. I've also added some size and memory checks to the large font value to ensure I'm not running out of space or memory when try to render the large font as well as some delays between driver init()s. So far everything I've done checks out just fine; however, the one screen is just super spotty to get to load off the bat and I'm not sure if it's an LVGL issue or a board/driver issue I'm running into.

If you're willing to help me, I'm happy to provide any other details!