Did I ever have a moment where I thought mechanical keyboards were overrated ?
Yes I did, It was almost the very first week I got my first mechanical keyboard back in December 2015.
I was using cheap membrane keyboards for 15 to 20 years before. And when I got my first Cherry MX Brown switched keyboard, even tough it was much better than typing on membrane keyboards, I noticed that I began making some weird typos. I thought mechanical keyboards were a new experience for me so there had to be an adaptation period. But no, soon I quickly realized that some switches were defective and were chattering, double pressing some letters. In the mean time, I also got myself a Cherry MX Blue switched keyboard for typing purposes but unfortunately I realized that that keyboard had also some defective switches that were double typing/chattering. And as months passes, chattering issue began worse and every week or month some new keys were developing chattering.
Feeling frustrated and betrayed, I began looking for solutions on the internet. Almost 1 year later in December 2016, this time I bought a Logitech mechanical keyboard because it's newly designed Romer-G switches were advertised as "Specifically built with double contact mechanism to eliminate/reduce chatter". First year using that Logitech keyboard was kind of okey but unfortunately it also started developing chatter at multiple keys and what's worse is this time sometimes keys were not pressing/registering key strokes at all!!. I was taking notes of defective switches in that Logitech and when I finally abandoned using that keyboard, there were total 32 entries for defective switches in my notes for that keyboard!
This was the last straw for me to almost completely avoid the keyboards that have the traditional metal contact type switches. 3 defective keyboards in a row is enough.
In my opinion, a mechanical keyboard must be better than a membrane keyboard in every way. As I said before, I used membrane keyboards for 15~20 years and I don't remember a single time a key had chattering or misregistering issues. Reliability is a very important thing.
Also in my opinion: A decent mechanical keyboard need not be taken care of, cleaned and generally be more fragile to dust more than a membrane keyboard. Altough I accept and know the reason why membrane keyboards are more resistant to drink spills when compared to mechanical keyboards.
But still I can't give up the typing comfort and luxury of mechanical keyboards, therefore nowadays I am using a type of mechanical keyboard that have a switch type that's immune to chatter. I am in a kind of "rehabilitation" nowadays because after all those "traumatic" months and years, I am finally enjoying mechanical keyboards again.
You may ask "Why did you switch to a keyboard, say a Topre, before?" The answer is unfortunately I am kind of restricted to keyboard layout options and mainly restricted to the customs of my country.
In our country, only very few main brands are available and able to supply the keyboards that have the language layout I want. These are: Asus, Razer, Corsair, A4Tech-Bloody, Logitech, CM Storm, Thermaltake, Rampage etc...
I don't have access to many keyboards mentioned here in geekhack.org: Topre, Ducky, HHKB, GMK, Leopold, Unicomp etc etc etc ? forget about it...
And also unfortunately keyboard is the only PC Peripheral/equipment that comes with language differences.