[smohare]

I personally find function keys useless (I’m mostly in Vim and map things to leader + mnemonic key sequences), so the Touch Bar tends to offer more value for things like media control. It really boils down to personal use, rather than a fundamentally flawed design.

[fiddlerwoaroof]

Yeah, I’ve been interested in the touchbar as a way to get emacs-mode-specific shortcut keys.