You speak as if the issues in the keyboard community are technical, but then you go and complain about things that are, by and large, not technical in nature.
The real 'problem' (if you can call it that) is that most consumers are perfectly happy with $10 rubber dome boards. Most of the developments in keyboards in the last 30 years have been focused on reducing their cost, and they've done that. They've also compromised some quality in the process, but for a lot of people that's a sacrifice they're perfectly willing to make.
Anything that's not a $10 rubber dome keyboard is a niche today. 'Gamer'-oriented stuff has become popular in recent years because that's a relatively large niche. There are a lot of gamers startings to become conscious of the limitations of cheap keyboards. But it's still niche and the stuff they want isn't necessarily what a pure typist wants anyway.
Stuff like custom keycaps face very limited runs because the market for them is extremely small. Making custom keycaps for anything not MX-compatible would face a market even smaller than that. It's not good business, but that's not a technical problem.
You speak as if the issues in the keyboard community are technical, but then you go and complain about things that are, by and large, not technical in nature.That's one way of looking at it. Another way is that nothing has been produced that justifies most people spending the extra money, and a complete lack of innovation on the industrial engineering side has made mechanical keyboarding components less and less cost-effective, which only exacerbates the problem.
The real 'problem' (if you can call it that) is that most consumers are perfectly happy with $10 rubber dome boards. Most of the developments in keyboards in the last 30 years have been focused on reducing their cost, and they've done that. They've also compromised some quality in the process, but for a lot of people that's a sacrifice they're perfectly willing to make.
Anything that's not a $10 rubber dome keyboard is a niche today. 'Gamer'-oriented stuff has become popular in recent years because that's a relatively large niche. There are a lot of gamers startings to become conscious of the limitations of cheap keyboards. But it's still niche and the stuff they want isn't necessarily what a pure typist wants anyway.
Stuff like custom keycaps face very limited runs because the market for them is extremely small. Making custom keycaps for anything not MX-compatible would face a market even smaller than that. It's not good business, but that's not a technical problem.