is HID keyboard impossible on C6? BLE or USB are either fine

I am seeing conflicting answers, and I am having setup hell. I have purchased an order of PCBs that use a ESP32-C6 devkit, and I'm so pissed I didn't do a breadboard prototype because I'm discovering that the default keyboard/HID/Arduino libraries do not seem to work on the C6. I'm not totally opposed to writing my own libraries, but it means I'll need to re scope my project timeline hugely

Am I genuinely SOL? Do I need to order new boards? Or write the HID library from scratch? I just thought that any ESP32 would do HID no problem, shocked to see this model having troubles out of the box.

For reference, I need minimally for the board to wire to six buttons as a macropad for single key presses, and to output text strings and backspaces. I'm making something like a t9 predictive keyboard. I am unconcerned if it is USB or bluetooth.