I might be missing something, but I don't understand your complaints: - You can still hit shift with your pinkies in essentially the same position as tradition

I might be missing something, but I don't understand your complaints: - You can still hit shift with your pinkies in essentially the same position as traditional Qwerty. - There's a control key in the "correct" position, next to the A, which is less of a stretch than PC keyboards with control in the bottom corners. - Yes, you need to move your hand to reach the cursor keys, but how is this worse than Qwerty (where you need to move it even farther)? - Backspace is a thumb key on this keyboard and requires no finger movement, while on Qwerty it's one of the least-accessible keys. - PC Qwerty keyboards do require you to move your fingers more than one key left or right. Depending on your exact keyboard model, how else do you type backspace, Enter/Return, Escape, right-bracket/right-brace, pipe/backslash, or equals/plus? (These are totally common keys for programmers, and backspace/enter/return are common for everybody.)