Simply put, I need more PWM ports in a small form factor (currently using the Arduino Pro Mini 328).
Is there a solid alternative or method? I’m not finding anything and that has me a bit nervous. 
you can always do soft PWMs as many as you want, it all depends on the max PWM frequency your application needs.
Worst case you ditch the Arduino environment and go bare metal with either the Atmega328 or just about any other micro.
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