I don't mean to single you out, but I decidedly am not happy with at least a heavier chassis, and to a lesser degree worse battery life. I used to be sympatheti

I don't mean to single you out, but I decidedly am not happy with at least a heavier chassis, and to a lesser degree worse battery life. I used to be sympathetic to the argument, until I was issued an older generation MBP for $JOB; my personal MBP is the "dreaded" touch bar model. Just looking at the specs they are only ~200 g apart in weight, but it's annoyingly noticeable during daily carry. The $JOB MBP also has worse battery life, necessitating me to carry its power adapter more often, which is another ~300 g. That said, $JOB requires me to run some battery-hungry software coughChromecough, that I don't run when I'm off, so it's not quite apple-to-apple comparison. For that matter, the keyboard doesn't really bother me, either, but TBF I'm probably a more forgiving typist than most. I have no issues typing on the cheap thrown-in Dell keyboards, and they're practically disposable that I don't feel so bad when I inevitably spill something over one. tl;dr: I like the current generation MBP over the previous generation.