I used to basically think it was insane that people would recommend changing the layout of my keyboard in order to accommodate the inefficient default key bindi

I used to basically think it was insane that people would recommend changing the layout of my keyboard in order to accommodate the inefficient default key bindings of Emacs. However, even though I long ago stopped using Emacs, to this day I still swap Caps Lock with Ctrl because it's a much more natural position for the control key once you get used to it.