"semblance of compatibility with QWERTY" Probably. I've went through the tutorial and particularly liked how it felt like qwerty even if it was very different

"semblance of compatibility with QWERTY" Probably. I've went through the tutorial and particularly liked how it felt like qwerty even if it was very different at the same time. You can say it's "short-sighted" but lots of amazing new keyboard layout were not adopted because it never went mainstream.