I’d agree that the m0110 style bottom might not be the right direction for the project, but I do think it’s worth considering design revisions. People seemed to gloss over the fact that the runner themselves didnt seem particularly happy with the prototype.
Personally, as much as I’m a fan of weird, large-bezel ~65% keyboards as a genre, I do find the original to be a little underdesigned. I like the concept of curving the profile of the case, but something about the way it’s applied to the front seems sort of arbitrary or half-hearted, maybe—it doesn’t do enough to refine the aesthetics of what’s otherwise kind of an inelegant slab of aluminium (not that chunky slabs can’t have charm in their own way).
On the other hand, I’ve no industrial design expertise so that’s just armchair criticism, and judging by the discussion on colours and plate stuff there are a fair number of people who are into it.