Did the new keyboard allow for a flatter design to allow for more battery life? All it did was to increase Apple's repair cost because they had to support repa

Did the new keyboard allow for a flatter design to allow for more battery life? All it did was to increase Apple's repair cost because they had to support repairing these keyboards for many years. > Apple has always tried to improve computing. Then why go backwards with a bad keyboard, removing the Escape Key etc. Apple is not a scrappy startup where they don't have a team to test and give feedback.