[spudlyo]

This trick gave me some pretty bad pain in my left hand after a month or so. Remapping control to CAPS LOCK worked for me for years, but what really helped was when I switched to a keyboard that had six keys on each thumb cluster, which allowed me to map control and meta to the thumbs.

[Semiapies]

Which keyboard, if you don't mind my asking?

[spudlyo]

Kinesis Advantage 2. In my opinion it’s still the best ergonomic keyboard on the market, I just wish it had better firmware.

[lycopodiopsida]

You can update it to QMK, mods exist: https://hackaday.com/2021/08/05/kinesis-teensy-qmk-advantage...

There is also a successor available.