[tarsius]

My point is that I find it difficult to understand how someone can invest so much time/money improving their typing experience without realizing that such a keyboard is the way to go.

I am guessing that it is because we are all so used to "normal" keyboards that it is not enough to be explicitly told what isn't so great about them and being shown a picture of the alternative to overcome the "wow, that surely is a keyboard for freaks designed by freaks" reaction.

And I though that having those two insights about anatomy on your own might just be enough for some to be more open to those freakish keyboards. After all that's what I did; it might work for others too. Back when I bought my first Kinesis Advantage nobody talked about such keyboards. One day I looked at my hands and then at my keyboard and realized that that can't possibly be the best there is. Then I went on the still young internet and searched for something reasonable().

() Of course such keyboards have disadvantages too. Mainly they tend to be on the bulky side, which isn't so great for traveling.