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It's a misconception that layout switchers are relearning to type, especially if they were proficient qwerty touch typists. The better typists in qwerty have a significantly easier time learning a new keyboard layout. Most of the typing skills positively transfer over, even though there's still an initial hurdle.

Furthermore, I think there's significant bias when typists learn a new more ergonomic layout. For example, they may have incidentally fixed their typing posture when learning Colemak, they want to justify their investment, or they overestimate the efficiency/comfort gains in respect to how much they need to type daily. Performing frequent typing tests (something alternative layout typists like to do!) is furthest away from reality for most people. Many switchers also forget how to type in qwerty well; improving typing speed while learning feels "really nice" and it's easy to wrongly associate this with "qwerty is uncomfortable."

They also downplay the importance of living in a qwerty world, having to share a computer with another, or being able to proficiently type in qwerty (which many of them do not retain), or dealing with software not accounting for other layouts.

I type in Colemak in Qwerty proficiently.