All these alternate layouts seem to be optimized to minimize finger movement in English, but that's not really how things work in practice. For one thing, ther

All these alternate layouts seem to be optimized to minimize finger movement in English, but that's not really how things work in practice. For one thing, there's more than English. Then, it's not just about finger movement, but about easy movements. For example 're' seems common in English, and is really easy to type as a 'roll' in qwerty. 'n', 'u', 't' 'v' are all really easy to reach with the index finger in qwerty, so it's not just about the home row, but about easy-to-reach keys. Also a lot of keyboardists are programmers, so there's the whole story of punctuation. Let alone software keyboard shortcuts etc. I've found it's better to configure your software than to change your keyboard layout. For example I'm learning Janet (a lisp-like) currently, which allows kebab-case variable names. Wow, it's such a blessing to be able to type without shift-modifyer, 'vector-embedding' instead of 'vector_embedding' or 'VectorEmbedding', and [1 2 3 4 5 6] instead of [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6], etc.