Eh basically given up. They have no plans on lowering their fees to entry, so it's not like many labs can afford to go, when they could be spending resources on actual projects. There isn't really the goal of innovating in bioengineering anymore on the institutional level: that stopped years ago when the original MIT folks went to do their own things (like Ginkgo). It's now much more about putting on a very nice show, which gets funders, so they can do a better show.
I'm working on the FreeGenes project (have for a while) on building another parts repository that is actually open source (iGEM simply doesn't use terms or conditions with their plasmid stocks, we're using the OpenMTA). It turns out it's actually really hard to build large quantities of parts: for about a year we messed around with in house cloning, and got pretty far, but now we're just ordering clonal DNA directly from Twist. I'm beginning to hit on toolkits that are generally useful by spreading out the number of suppliers we have rather than cleverness to clone hard things in house, so it's just taking a while. It's also just hard to scale the DNA design process.
The FreeGenes parts collections aren't out yet, but will be sooner or later. For now, if you want parts and are unaffiliated with an institution, you either know people, get them from the odin, or get affiliated.