[tsuujin]

This kind of use case should have been what the Touch Bar supported.

I was actually excited when the Touch Bar came out because I though I would finally be able to just have named buttons, even click-through menus, instead of having to memorize what f1-f12 did on a given app.

Imagine if instead of “ok, f1 opens my [some application], I just need to memorize that” you could just add a button that says [some application]”.

Sadly the support for the Touch Bar was pretty middling to poor.