Same as you basically. Tried so many of them back in the days... To me the switch is way more important than the physical layout: if the physical layout is go

Same as you basically. Tried so many of them back in the days... To me the switch is way more important than the physical layout: if the physical layout is good enough, it's good enough. Buckling springs: I stockpiled IBM Model M back when it wasn't a thing and used that for years. Alps. Cherry MXes. Then I tried a board with Topre switch and since then I'm happily camping with my HHKB Pro JP (japanese). I'd try these fancy ergonomic / self made keyboards but only the day they'll start making them with Topre switches. That's my "hack": seen that I couldn't get any custom keyboard with Topre switches, I picked the next best thing to me... A japanese Topre keyboard. Now the funny thing is: despite having some japanese family, I don't speak japanese at all (well, ok, I know the names of a few animals and know the hiraganas but that's it). I really only picked a japanese keyboard for the very narrow space bar (the point is not that the space bar is tiny but that a tiny space bar makes for modifiers left and right of the spacebar easy to reach with the thumbs as the thumbs have much less distance to travel). Another bonus of having more modifiers is that can have these additional modifiers acting as Super and Hyper. P.S: as a european for whatever reason it wasn't easy to get a Japanese HHKB Pro JP shipped to me, so I got my family in Japan to bring me two when they visited me.