Visual consistency make it more predictable especially for touch typist, even more for beginner. If you're a hunter pecker, then it may impact less. One of the

Visual consistency make it more predictable especially for touch typist, even more for beginner. If you're a hunter pecker, then it may impact less. One of the aims is to reduce awkward latency in staggered keyboard that occurs when a finger of a touch typist trying to access other key in supposedly same column, but have to adjust slightly to the left or right, and the adjustment is not even equal between rows. One caveat I can think of is that once you use this, you may have difficulty when using other keyboard that has staggered layout. In other words, once you go non-staggered, you'll never go staggered.