Thanks for the reply! I appreciate the feedback.
The enclosure has a liner of glassfiber on the inside, and the bottom of the deck has two coats of epoxy. the cells are potted to the enclosure with natural curing silicone same goes for the rest of the electronics. however everything but the battery is made to be modular so if one component blows up you can swap that without having to solder anything.
If the battery dies you would have to get a new enclosure with it. not ideal in terms of service but in my opinion it is worth the tradeoff for the added durability and preventing issues in the first place.
And not having cables on the top eliminate the risk of getting anything pinched if you take a hit from below. on a wood/glass fiber based deck you would not have to care as much.
In my case I have a 6mm curvature on the bottom compared to flat (if that makes sense). and im saving an additional 5-7mm by not folding and soldering series wires on top of the batteries. Plus the use of butyl tape to seal the enclosure is very low profile instead of neoprene or similar and having a thin carbon fiber enclosure. For a single stacked enclosure that ends up being a surprisingly large percentage of the height being saved.
With the setup I have today it is pretty damn quick to build. and def not the bottleneck in terms of time.
The enclosure is actually designed for a 14s5p setup with a non VESC based ESC. Delays made me move over to use a 12s5p setup with an Xenith which im happy with so far.