Have you considered a manual steering box, and adapting an EPAS (electric power assisted steering) setup under the dash from a toyota yaris? It requires only an ignition switched hot, and a ground to power it. Theres a few people on fabo that are doing this.
I didn’t consider it, but good to know about it. I did consider swapping to manual, but I just DID NOT want to open yet another damn can of worms on this thing :)