Hey Lolly, you sound like me
I have read endless messages about people complaining about their smooooth keycaps. Smooth plastic is naturally shinier than bumpy plastic.
I have nothing against shiny keycaps. All my current keyboards have smoooth keycaps or very mildly textured.
Which keyboard did you get?
I can't believe you are getting yours before I got mine!
PBT vs. ABS.
In my experience ABS plastic gets brittle and breaks at the 18-20 year old mark. PBT seems indestructible and lasts forever.
But they can mix additives into the ABS and the additives could allegedly make the plastic last longer or shorter.
I would love to have a set of ABS keycaps on 1 keyboard and PBT on another so that I could compare them over the years.
If you ever find any spherical keycaps please tell me. I would love to try them.