I am going to go against the grain here and defend what I feel is a highly underrated keyboard of any kind. Topre/HHKB! My favorite board in the world. So much so I spent $$$ making cases and modding the heck out of them. Now there is absolutely nothing that can be complained about IMO!
Edited. there is one issue with Topre and cherry stems and GMK caps I mentioned elsewhere. Very stiff. I keep typing "I" and end up with "i" upsetting. completely ruins my WPM to go back and fix all that. I do not understand why it is only the "I" key? How odd.
Isn't there a lot of love for Topre and the HHKB layout? It seems to me that that's actually a very popular opinion.
I'm not sure one could find much disagreement about the stock feel of HHKB topre within the communuity. Sure, people swap domes and lube them but they are doing so starting with a very solid foundation.
They are not perfect by any means, and I got rid of both of the ones I had for a few reasons:
- Layout issues - Putting the delete key where I am used to the pipe key was something I could not overcome. More times than not, I would clip the return key while trying to backspace, and that was bad news for me as I spend a lot of time doing IM and Slack/Discord things for work and pleasure, where hitting return is a submit function. Also, two 1.5u UI keys were completely unnecessary for my uses.
- Lack of remap - Sure one could put a Hasu controller in, but I had no interest in cracking open either one of my HHKBs apart as I had problems getting my Novatouch reassembled when trying to put silencing rings in it.
- Mini-USB - I hate this connector with a passion.
I've gone back to using a HHKB form factor with remapped keys on my Tokyo60. Remaps/macros/layer changes are much easier as it supports VIA (and even QMK isn't that bad once I flashed the board a few times with it). And 9009 had all the caps I needed to make my desired adjustments. And it is USB-C!