@peirof Maybe as this is in general discussions I can comment a bit.
Unless the driver chip itself was totally backwards compatible hardware wise It seems very unlikely even if you could manage do desolder and replace the chip itself.
I could only imagine the support situation if the Duet3D boards would support step sticks with not only different manufacturers Watterot, Fysetc, BTT etc but also all the different variants TMC2209, TMC5160 etc some using USART, others SPI and so on, that people would manage to insert.