So uh. I don't know if this is actually an unpopular opinion. I also don't know if I've posted this before. In fact, I probably have. Not sure. Ever since going on a diet several months ago, I've been kind of out of it, so now I sometimes repeat myself like a senile old person (even more than I used to).
Right.
Trackpoints.
More specifically, the fact that decent versions for normal-profile keyboards with acceptable durability and enough sensitivity to be used on a modern monitor at 6/11 Windows cursor speed (EPP off of course), need to be made to exist, and that every keyboard should then have one.
Why? Well, think of the main reasons that home desktop users appeal to when they try to explain those deformed, stubby little compact keyboards that so many enthusiasts buy. Specifically "it lets you keep your hands closer together, in a more natural position," or "it makes it faster and easier to switch back and forth between the keyboard and mouse."
Anything (okay, almost anything) a compact keyboard, no matter how small-- even 60%, even 40%-- does in those regards, a keyboard with a TrackPoint, even if it's full-size, heck, even if it's a monster with double function rows and macro keys on both size, does better. And it does it without having to sacrifice any keys at all. I guess I could still see using a stunted keyboard if you spend many hours every day playing FPS and really want to use a conventional mouse for it, despite the ergonomic disadvantages of such a device, but even then, you should still have a TrackPoint too for anything else you might want to do at your computer. In fact, given that the TrackPoint takes up very little additional space-- just a tiny bit of extra thickness for the bottom edge to accommodate the buttons-- even if you strongly prefer a different pointing device, you should have a TrackPoint anyway, just to let you vary the motions you're using for mousing (remember, the "R" in "RSI" stands for repetitive).
Conveniently, if all keyboards had TrackPoints, then all keycap sets would have compatible G, H, and B keycaps, so there would not be any problems in that regard.
Sometimes people complain about the danger of hitting the TrackPoint by accident. Personally, I'm not convinced that this is real. I have a screwed up typing style where I press some of the keys in the middle area of the keyboard with either hand depending on what has come before, so if anyone was going to bump into the TrackPoint by accident, it'd be me. But, thinking back to all of the things I did on my ThinkPad, I can't recall that ever actually happening.
Anyway, yeah. TrackPoints. People who supply components to keyboard makers need to get on that.