[joch]

Even though the Esc key is indented, the empty space on the left still functions as Esc, meaning that the key is quite wide in practice.

[geerlingguy]

Not in my testing—if I touched around the left side without any part of my finger touching esc, it didn't register. And even when it did, the lack of any kind of feedback (Haptic feedback would be so nice here) makes it disconcerting at best.