From personal experience I can tell you I brute force ripped out soldered-in low-profile blue switches on a Redragon Horus K619-RGB board. The switches were reusable, and the board now IS hotswap. That said, I destroyed my fingertips and snapped the point off my kiridashi, and was probably only successful due to low quality solder work from Redragon. For those wondering, this was my first "customized" mechanical keyboard, and I didn't know they weren't ALL supposed to be hotswap.