The truncated numrow looks cool, but it cripples actual gaming usability while not saving any meaningful amount of space.
If I can't type "lit 99 mid" or "~harder daddy" (or open the console with tilde) without switching layers how can I be an elite gamer?
That said, despite its impracticallity, it does look cool. The loss of half the numbers is taken care of with layers, but again, you're including only half the numbers despite being the same size as a board with a full number row, so you're just suffering to look cool.