I will give it the ole rip-o-meter once I get it in my hands -- have a bag of appropriately weighted nickels set aside for just that task
I can also compare it to a Topre as I've owned a couple now (and since sold them so I can't do direct A/B comparison). I wasn't a big fan of the Topre's. At first I LOVED the feel of them, but as time went on I didn't enjoy them as much and went back to cherry based boards. I think you're right in that some of the previous generations had varying quality too, I've read that in a few places now. Hopefully with the v2's they will be consistent (or at least that I get one o the better versions). It's so new that I imagine they are only being made in one place (so far).
I love the configurability of it and the fact that it's a mostly standard layout for the key placement, and it seems very tiny. Hopefully I'll be able to enjoy the rubber domes in it, but I'm willing to trade love of the keys for pain-free typing at this point
I wish I had have looked at this boards a while back to be honest, but I always kind of ruled them out because they weren't mechanical switches so I never looked more closely at them and saw the way they are designed until recently *face palm*
