I’m not an insider, so I have no opinions. My guess is they have more pressing things keeping them off the streets at night.
I absolutely depend on my camera for layout work, as does @bernd.dk, so I’d conjure a USB camera and get it mounted, rather than wait for a better solution.
The only catch with your huge laser will be finding a camera with a large enough field of view, then anchoring it firmly to the ceiling / rafters / infrastructure over the middle of the platform.
For another project, I got one similar to this:
And a box of M12 lenses:
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=m12+lens+assortment
Which let me fiddle around until the right answer appeared on the screen.
You’ll surely need an active + powered USB extension cable to get all the way up there. The trick is to inject the power at the camera end, rather than depend on the PC to get it right:
I haven’t used that, but seems plausible.
Another choice with a shorter cable might be a head-mounted camera, although that’s been “in beta” basically forever.
Show us pix, because we loves us some big machine action around here! 