For any one interested in doing this, getting your Technician (lowest level) is pretty easy. If you're already familiar with very basic circuits and electronics you could probably go in blind and have a >50% chance of passing (there are questions you'll need to memorize). Go through the practice exams, you'll see.
But here's the thing, you don't need any time to wait to take the General test (mid level), and there are a lot of benefits to General. (Here's the chart for frequency allocation[0]) You can take the test the same day and won't have to pay an extra fee. (I've seen a few do all 3 in the same session, but time is probably an issue) So even if you don't get the General, it is worth the shot. You'll definitely need to study for the General though.
Your license stays with you for 10 years, so it can just be nice to have in your back pocket (and with this kit, quite literally)
True. Honestly, if I was going to do this (I won't) I would probably just set aside a couple weeks to train a deep net to parse and generate morse code (a near-perfect example already exists: https://github.com/f4exb/morseangel) and in the process of debugging the model, will end up dealing with so many audiovisual examples I'll end up knowing morse without actually studying.
