Part of the reason I want to do that is to avoid doing a bunch of pedal swaps and/or setting changes when I want to do a deep dive into a particular genre.
The kinds of dirt pedals you’d want to use for 60s style spy guitar are different from those you’d use for stoner rock. A board sporting rotary pedals, pitch shifters, ring modulators, synths and a theremin won’t be ideal for jazz standards. Etc.
But as you well know, that task would involve a nontrivial monetary investment in cables, if nothing else. And cables are about the unsexiest, most unfun things to spend money on in electric guitar. So every time I start getting serious about the pedalboard project, I inevitably find a new pedal to buy, or even something for one of my other hobbies.