> A significant source of consternation, amongst software engineers at least was the confiscation of the function and escape keys. Well I didn’t much miss them. Every time I went for the escape key, it’s graphical facsimile was there and did the job.

My feelings as well, after playing with a store demo machine for ~30 minutes, mostly in Terminal.app/vim. There were/are so many people complaining about the lack of an escape key, making silly memes to that effect, etc. Yet, in practice, it works just fine. Terminal.app has been updated to take advantage of the touch bar too, both allowing you to quickly assign a new background color to the window, and to take the currently-typed command and open up a man page for it in a new window. Not essential functionality by any means, but little things which you might actually integrate into your workflow.