[coryfklein]

The biggest thing for me: travel

* Distance to caps is 1-key

* Distance to touch bar ESC is ~3-4 keys, which is quite a bit to travel for a pinky and for me even requires forearm movement. But this is the same, touch-bar or not, so I've been remapping since before the physical ESC disappeared anyway.

This is a bigger deal for me because I use vi mode on my terminal and so I hit ESC all the time in the terminal.

Also I use Dvorak, so 70% of my keystrokes are already on the home row, so moving off the home row for something so common as ESC is much more noticeable.

Lastly - who the hell uses caps lock anyway? For short words like ESC, holding shift has now become second nature. For longer things I often type it in lowercase, select in vim, then use `U` to convert to uppercase. For not-in-vim uppercase on the internet: I just don't shout. :P