mainly interested in this news to learn if they'll start exchanging 2016/17 mbps for this new model.
Does the new keyboard require dozens of tiny screws to assemble/dissemble?
I may be wrong but I was under the impression the difficulty in replacing the keyboard is due to it being fused to the battery. You pretty much have to replace both when attempting to replace one or the other.
Yeah, that is the issue. A keyboard replacement means replacing both battery and keyboard because they are glued together.
But I have heard that they were replacing older keyboards (2016) with 2017 models (You could easily tell because they add new symbols above control/option.) I wonder if they'll be doing replacements with 2018 keys now. It would be really nice - the keyboard reliability is pretty much my only complaint, minus not having a physical escape key.