I am not seeing a compelling reason to buy this over the trusty Quickfire Rapid// Stealth
None of the "extra" features are the type that people actually use or care about.
If anything the Rapid// Stealth is much more "svelte" looking.
This gives me the impression of extra purposeless fat edges.
The majority of people, maybe not. But there is a non-trivial amount of people who do care about that. And they are the market that this board is aimed at.
I'm Colemak and know two other devs who are Dvorak. The idea of a dip switchable Colemak layout is intriguing. Not so much for my workstation because it's already set up, but for when I'm at my clients. It's a pain to have to pull out my flash drive with my PKL just so I can work at their locations.
Further, it's nice that you can order keycaps with Colemak or Dvorak inscriptions. I'm a Topre fanboy, so I won't be getting a WASD board, but I like the direction in which they're moving. Now, if they offered a Topre switch option...I'd be all over that. Better yet, a variable with 45g and 55g! That gives me a chubby!
Both Colemak and Dvorak are EXTREMELY flawed.
They both put vowels in the CENTER row.
This is bad, because there's a huge misunderstanding within the community that the CENTER row is "home position"
However, any seasoned keyboard user would know that the fingers do not rest in a bar/line shape horizontally on the center row.
It does a curve shape. on qwerty it rests on awef jio'
4 vowels in rest position. Qwerty > Cole// Dvo
I can appreciate what you are saying when a normal keyboard is being used. However, if resting your middle and ring fingers on the top row, then it is much harder to use the bottom row keys associated with those fingers because they are much further away from your resting position.
On the Kinesis, Ergodox and Truly Ergonomic keyboards the various columns are offset in accordance with your finger length (i.e. the ring finger center row key is slightly higher than the index finger center row key and the middle finger center row key is even higher). For those keyboards, the vowels for Dvorak and Colemak are both on the center row and in the resting position.
