i found the touchbar era butterfly keyboard with soft esc to be borderline unusable. has that been fixed in the new models? how's running x86 vms or containers

i found the touchbar era butterfly keyboard with soft esc to be borderline unusable. has that been fixed in the new models? how's running x86 vms or containers under rosetta 2? will note that the mbp was EXCELLENT for video conferencing in every way. mics, speakers and camera were carefully tuned.