[makecheck]

I’m sure I would agree with all gripes against the Touch Bar, except I frequently see articles complaining about things that are technically customizable.

For instance, yes many actions are useless or easy to hit accidentally, etc. but you can change what’s on the Touch Bar.

[ricardobeat]

Have you found any useful applications for it? I’ve had mine for over six months now and still find it kind of useless.

The fact that it “adapts” to the focused app implies that it would do something useful for that app, which is rarely the case. It also seems impossible to customise it to look exactly like it’s physical counterpart all the time for the same reason.

That, and it’s much slower and clumsier for actions like changing volume or skipping a track, which I do dozens of times a day. Can’t wait to exchange for non-touch model (company policy yada yada, probably same problem as OP).

[makecheck]

The dynamic switching is one of its fundamental problems because I don’t like peripheral vision distractions. Fortunately, the bar can be configured to be static.

It’s amazing how little movement it takes to catch your eye’s attention (one reason why ads are almost always annoying if they have any catchy color or move in any way, even if they’re not in your face).

Therefore, I don’t want the icons on the keyboard changing how they look. I’m probably not looking at the keyboard, I’m looking at the screen and that just makes me look at the keyboard again.

And sadly, it’s not like you even need a Touch Bar to have dynamic behavior in every application; function keys are already dynamic.