I mean let's not be hasty. Mechanical keyboards used to be just normal keyboards when computers were still computers.

That is a fair argument. I don't know why they dropped out of favour - price? Noise?

	▲	lamasery 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		My guess would be price. Shoppers probably got more sensitive to the price of a keyboard as the price of computers dropped, and approximately none of them were choosing between two computer-bundles at the store with any regard for keyboard quality.