I had a mechanical typewriter I bought in the '80s, and it was pretty basic, no real features at all, and the same classic type-bar mechanism that would jam if

I had a mechanical typewriter I bought in the '80s, and it was pretty basic, no real features at all, and the same classic type-bar mechanism that would jam if you pushed it too hard... but I rather liked it. Lots of typewriters of that class were very nice well-built reliable machines. I think it's unfair to label them as "crappy typewriters," because they weren't. I will note that my actual typewriter was much less annoying than this simulator, because there was a lot more feedback from the physical mechanism, both by touch—the keys were directly connected to the type bars, and one could feel their momentum and how hard they hit the paper—and sound. One could relatively easily judge if you were pushing the mechanism too hard (and adjust accordingly), how evenly you were typing, etc. Using this feedback, one could easily get into a nice typing rhythm and type pretty quickly with a decently low error rate (much faster and more accurately than this simulator allows). [Certainly as typewriter manufacturers at the very end of the typewriter era began to be aware of the threat of computers, and started employ some of the same technology, there were a lot of features added to try and compete.]