[codingdave]

Using a mouse is completely natural if you do it often. So is using a pen on a tablet. Whatever you use, you get so used to it that is it an extension of your own hands or whatever you use to control input. Your own bias is showing in the assumption that you can develop muscle memory for keys but not other input devices, or that because links are in different places, the mouse becomes cumbersome.

[dartos]

You can’t develop muscle memory when your target movement isn’t the same.

Using a mouse is natural as in intuitive. You don’t need to really tech someone to use a mouse. It’s easy in that way.

But that’s not the same as muscle memory. Using my hands is very natural, but when learning guitar, I still need to be conscious of what position my hand is going to be in. After a while, since my hand is constantly going to the exact same position, I develop muscle memory and no longer need to be conscious of where my hand is going.

I feel like I shouldn’t need to explain muscle memory with analogy.