bringing real usability to more people is sometimes better than making something useful to a small minority.
But are you even sure that there are more people that find scoops unusable than there are people who would use the 1800 layout (or any other additional layout supported)?
The way I see it, nibbed F and J keys are a very minor alternative to the already perfectly usable (and for many of us, preferable) scooped F and J keys.
I doubt most of the users in this GB have even used scoops...How many people on here have actually used Cherry/GMK full sets? There are far more that have not. But lets say half have and love scoops (even assuming ALL of them love scoops which isn't the case). Half haven't and are unknown. Some will find it foreign and odd and have grown up with nibs. If that % is 40% of 50% that is 20%. If it is 20% of 50% that is 10% of the overall total...Are scoops so preferred that even one out of five people that haven't used it wouldn't like scoops? Hard to believe right? Since we've seen some GMK GBs with Nibs, we know nibs aren't completely unpopular...not to mention they're far more standard and really, if scoops were that much more preferred (9 out of 10 people prefer them) we'd see more keyboards with them..
I doubt even 10% of the total GB users have a 1800 keyboard...for example....or a 660..
I'm not against additional layout compatibility..I think it is a good idea and I don't disagree with doing it...but at the same time, the funny layouts are in small minority..that isn't an opinion, really, for example, 1800 users are the minority...do you add keys for the minority to try to please everyone? Or add keys for more people?
Eg. Scoop/Nib usefulness is the same as alternate colors. So would additional colored keys for some changes be more useful for more people or adding some minor layouts options? Probably colored keys...
The biggest problem I see with a lot of GBs on GH is trying to make everything for everyone. The GH60 was a perfect example of why that is not necessary.
Korean customs are a perfect example of why it doesn't have to be everything for everyone. You can get this layout and that's it. Or Winkey or Winkeyless that's it.
Again, I'm not saying get rid of 1800 compatibility...etc, etc...I'm saying, hey, if we have the option for more keys, this might not be a bad one....and pointing out that there are probably going to be quite a few users that actually prefer nibs (although they might be fine with scoops)...