Don't your wrists still bend at weird angles with ortho compared to a split colstaggered board? Why not a Lily58 or a Sofle board? With QMK and Via you can set up a number layer to be just like a numpad (I do this with my Corne board), as well as having a utility layer for media keys.
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I'm mainly thinking of typing efficiency over wrist comfort but I'm not opposed to a split keyboard. Those are all viable options.
Then I'd recommend getting a Lily58 with MX hotswap sockets and putting whatever mechanical switches/keycaps you want on it.
This is DIY but the site does have an assembly service for their other boards, it might be worth contacting them about it.
Very much diy but this kind of layout from Weteor ticks a lot of your boxes.
https://github.com/weteor/ChonkyKong
Let me know if you need guidance on getting from the GitHub to an actual physical board. Soldering will be required (which I always encourage because I find it fun) but I recognize not everyone has the time.
I'm thinking ur options might be a smaller one with a numpad layer or an external numpad. Otherwise I think you're going to struggle with finding this one m8ty.
The position of the number pad doesn't matter, as long as it has one. The number pad layer is what the Typematrix has, that's fine.
most ortholinear keyboards I've seen have a numpad layer and are customisable by via or something, so if you're happy using a layer that definitely opens your options up.