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by TylerE 455 days ago
As a counterpoint... 50 or 60 years ago your average person wouldn't be familiar with QWERTY unless they were in one of a fairly small number of professions (secretary, author, journalist...). QWERTY was something you had to learn.

These days everyone types on a keyboard. It's way more universal, to the point where a non QWERTY layout has to impose additional cognitive load.

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> These days everyone types on a keyboard

It was common to type on a keyboard also before, it just was a typewriter's keyboard.