I think this issue is caused partly by the design of modern keyboards. Back in the day, keyboards would have clear, lasting, physical markings on the F and J keys and the 5 key on the numpad. They also had special keys that were easily recognized for caps lock, return and so on. This meant you could put your hands almost anywhere on the keyboard and always know where you were. Finding the home row without looking took a fraction of a second. Another feature that keyboards used to have, which is becoming increasingly uncommon today, is grouping of the function keys into fours. This meant you could always press the right function key without looking. Modern keyboards more often than not don't do this, and reliably pressing the right function key without looking is nearly impossible today.
Old keyboards were (generally) designed to allow for touch-typing. Modern keyboards are (generally) designed to be looked at.
I honestly don't understand how this is difficult for people. I can touch type without looking, on a keyboard which is moving randomly. It's not a parlour trick, it's just what's supposed to happen if you type much at all. If you can't touch type in the dark, there's something wrong with your skill or your equipment.
I can touch type but not everybody can. Look at non sw developers using computers: usually they look for keys and are slow. They are the huge majority of the market. I'll be like them if I were not using a keyboard all the time.
Btw, this is a VR keyboard from the Dennou Coil anime 2009. Nobody was using real reality (pun intended) laptops there, only VR ones. I guess they were running on some AWS like cloud.
Old keyboards were (generally) designed to allow for touch-typing. Modern keyboards are (generally) designed to be looked at.