I get it, it's a hobby project, but I feel the knowledge of analog electronics is getting lost in a way (and yes the analog people are the worse at explaining things - I think I saw YT videos more informative than whole university courses)
There were definitely well-known circuits for driving transducers, but I had to improvise to make a circuit small and simple enough to build 100 of them.
Building new circuits requires tinkering and many tries, regardless of the builder's knowledge.