Horizontal or vertical staggers? In my personal opinion, default keyboards (horizontally staggered) are a pain to use, I loathe them and have my ideas why they

Horizontal or vertical staggers? In my personal opinion, default keyboards (horizontally staggered) are a pain to use, I loathe them and have my ideas why they still adopt that century old layout even if they don't have the mechanical constraint of the typewriters (mostly inertia). I have never tried the Kinesis Advantage but I have an Ergodox (that I don't use) and a TECK that's my daily driver; I find the vertical stagger layout (keys aligned on columns) the most natural for the hands (switched to Colemak 2~3 years ago, but that is another can of worms ^__^;). Ortholinear/matrix style, even if never tried I suspect I wouldn't like it, I'm thinking about the Plank models I've seen that use the Signature Plastic DSA keycaps. I have them on my Ergodox, the flat look is fabulous but I find it uncomfortable (the plan is to sell it and invest in a Advantage 2)...