What keyboard am I using now? Well, right this minute I'm using the built-in keyboard of a scrounged Dell Latitude laptop. But you didn't come here to read that.
I have two restored Model M boards. One was for the office, and one was for home. But since my work went to the dreaded open office plan, I can no longer get away with the clacky-clack of the M, so I had to take it home, and I bought a Cherry G80-3000 board with Blues to replace it. Put a set of white PBT caps on it so I'd have the F and J bumps.
After using it a while I realized it was costing me too much desk space in my tiny little open office carrel, so I ordered a smaller form factor metal-base mechanical board from Aliexpress, with knockoff Blues and funky backlight effects that I disabled immediately.
The knockoff blue switches are not really bad, lighter than real Cherry, but reasonably okay for the price. But I just miss the Model M every time I use either of these. I'm faster and more accurate on the M. You might say it's not a fair comparison to match up the very lowest-end blue switch boards against the IBM, and you'd be right, but I work from home as much as I can now, and I'm not going to drop big coin for a higher-end board to leave at the office.
I wish there was a modern mechanical switch with buckling spring feel.
