[jjoonathan]

My early experience agrees with yours: it was much harder to re-learn typing than I expected and a consistent mental load for a month or two until I internalized it. I did manage to get over the learning curve, and while I enjoy the noticeably reduced tendon strain (1/2 or 1/3 the movement, it's pretty amazing) and the fact that it cured me of touch typing, it does come with a few persistent annoyances, poor support on Windows being the worst. If you have AD-mandated password rotations, windows will copy your password from the login screen into "old password" and then silently swap the keyboard under you before you type your new password. It has three options for layout toggling keyboard shortcuts, all of which conflict with commonly used modifier key combinations, and the keyboard layout dialog seems to have a mind of its own, neither behaving like a global setting nor behaving like a per-application setting. On the balance, dvorak didn't save me time/hassle or make me faster, but it has made typing slightly more pleasant and it may have helped with RSI.