I have one of the first versions from work. And i am all for embracing if it actually made editing/coding faster for me but i just doesn't. I thinks the idea is

I have one of the first versions from work. And i am all for embracing if it actually made editing/coding faster for me but i just doesn't. I thinks the idea is fine if the function keys were still there. Rant alert on tech-tactility: I know it's pure anecdata but using the "sense of touch" when typing must surely be faster than having to context-switch while you have to precisely target a point on the screen with no sense-data to go with it. I feel "alienated" by the cold dead glass texture of modern interfaces on large hard glass screens. There is just not enough feedback in my opinion which is why i still somewhat miss old cellphones with real keyboards. Also i think our primal brain actually prefers having switches and buttons, just as kids do from the earliest years. I am pretty sure there as also been some research into worsening performance from pilots when testing touch screens because you have loose the sense of both shape, touch and placement (space) - that's a lot of data you are sacrificing for the dynamism of a touchscreen. Humans a tactile creatures and cold/hard/featureless glass screens are just not still as appealing as buttons and switches. It wouldn't actually surprise me if you got less of a dopamine response when typing on a glass screen compared to something with way more feedback, say an old keyboard with a lot of travel or a typewriter if you want to go crazy (as some authors do exactly because they feel like typing on modern keyboards is frustrating and "responseless"). This is also why i think a bit of DIY or gardening can be such a relief especially these days, because when you work with tech there is no feedback at all compared to real toolwork. And it seems to be worsening. Today is already way different than the tactile feedback you got with a computer from 2002 with a keyboard that said "click", where you could feel a "micro sense" of accomplishment/affirmation when you pushed it, then listen to harddisk respond with the "reading" sound. Sounds have also largely been removed and for good reason but this combined with all other feedback being removed and using tech can feel like yelling at a stone wall sometimes. The other day i tried using an old compaq computer from 1999 and i swear i got asmr-tingles and quite a dopamine rush just from the clickity-clack of it all, the harddisk sound, the small thraschan animation and sounds etc. Not just nostalgia but just the joy of getting feedback.