This seems like the oddity of it. The keyboard is poor, but the touchbar is useless if you don't use the keyboard. The lack of (useful/mainstream) ports seems

This seems like the oddity of it. The keyboard is poor, but the touchbar is useless if you don't use the keyboard. The lack of (useful/mainstream) ports seems surely due to the desire to go thinner - looking at the old MacBook Pro, it was as thin as it could go for those port dimensions. Sigh.