I've always been a little perplexed by the popularity of QWERTY and staggered layouts, particularly with those who are worried about ergonomics, and I haven't really seen threads about it (though I haven't gone digging either).
So anyway, I'm curious to hear why people have stuck with the traditional layouts, or better yet, why you ditched them and what you've ended up with instead.
This is on a Cherry RC80BM I just got for $36 off of ebay, but before that I was using a Cherry G86-63400 that I had bought for around $85 thinking it was mechanical. Don't regret the purchase though, it is a fun keyboard.
Before those, I had got an ergodox as my first mechanical, and pretty much hated it. Also one day I went to use it and the cord was all ****ing hot, but I wasn't bummed out enough to fix it. After using this key layout on a ****ty gaming keyboard for a while I decided it was time to get a point of sale keyboard and see if I could make it work for me. I wish I would have tried it in the first place, a regular grid is great. nothing goony/gimmicky. Just straight forward and fun.