[wkirby]

How is this better? I don't have to look at the keyboard to perform chords. With no tactile feedback, I certainly have to look at the touch bar.

What's more, common actions usually have high-priority, simple chords (cmd-c/cmd-v, for example) --- whereas complex chords are used for infrequent commands (cmd-alt-shift-c to re-assign the origin in blender, for example). If we're going to surface commands in the touch bar, intuition says to surface the common commands, and leave infrequent ones tucked away, meaning that even with the touch bar you don't have quick or simple access to those commands.