Keyboard shortcuts don't usually offer much feedback that you're on the right track. If you make a typo while using them they can become very confusing. Ctrl-C

Keyboard shortcuts don't usually offer much feedback that you're on the right track. If you make a typo while using them they can become very confusing. Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V are actally good examples. With no feedback on Ctrl-C at all, you can often mis-type Ctrl-V instead and have no idea until you try to paste later. Weirdly, some programs don't support those shortcuts, which leads to similar problems. I think that sort of faceless failure makes many users feel really, really dumb and out of control. I suspect they prefer menus because they can see when they're getting things right and when they're goofing up. It's not insoluble, but no system I'm familiar with makes it a priority, either.