Many applications (vast majority?) don't support remapping keybindings and it is a ton of work. Optimizing your layout for English is not necessarily ideal for

Many applications (vast majority?) don't support remapping keybindings and it is a ton of work. Optimizing your layout for English is not necessarily ideal for anyone writing in more than one language. edit: I guess the above can be manageable (with compromises), but in my opinion it does take away much of the appeal with a new layout.