Absolutely despised that nonsense.

Useless and no physical ESC for vim.

It also wasn’t optional, if you wanted a higher spec’d MacBook it was coming with a touchbar.

The keyboards of that era also had problems.

That was the last Mac I ever bought for both those reasons. Sure, I had my replacement keyboard, but it was doomed to fail just like the last one. The Touch Bar seemed cool but then it was discontinued, so goodbye ever seeing any more integrations.

I want to believe that a department at Apple, deep in the basement of some outbuilding, knows that there are people like me who feel so let down by them. Maybe if you can find them and you know the secret knock then they’ll slide open a hatch and say sorry before telling you to leave? Sorry.

Ten years later and I am of course much happier with my FOSS laptop.

I've been a vim user for a long time but it still took me a second to sort out "ESC for him". :)

Ctrl+c is the same as ESC for vim and easier to type.

I remap Capslocks to ESC which is even easier.