[gxonatano]

Keyboards like these are the worst kind of tech debt: they're literally a pain. Layouts like QWERTY, AZERTY, and so on reproduce the same layouts from nineteenth-century mechanical typewriters, which were designed to be inefficient, to avoid key jam. This explains why the most frequent letters of European languages, like E for English, require moving your left hand. Anyone designing a keyboard layout today would place the E on the home row of the right hand. The staggered-row design, too—where the Q row is shifted to the left of the A row, is also inherited from the typewriter days. This causes the left hand to crank back to the left unnaturally. When you add in the faraway placements of common keys, like Control, Backspace, or Delete, you have a recipe for repetitive stress injuries.

There are simple solutions to these problems. You can use a better keyboard layout, like Colemak or Dvorak, with your existing keyboard. The letters won't match the ones printed on the keys but if you touch-type it doesn't matter. If that bothers you, you can swap out your key caps, or use stickers. You can also just buy a well-designed keyboard. I use an Atreus keyboard, from Keyboardio, which fixes all of these problems, but there are lots of great keyboards which are commercially available, like the Planck or the ErgoDox, which help to fix the stagger problem.