Why the fuck is Apple getting rid of the option to not have a touch bar on Macbook Pros? They already made it so high-performance macbooks require them but at least you had the option to pick a worse performing model with the actual keys.
Does the touchbar really do that well in focus groups? It is pretty universally reviled among all the techie people I know. It breaks one of the most basic principals of a keyboard interface which is that you don't need to look at it to know which button you're pressing. That would be fine if it was just settings like brightness/volume you don't change very often but putting the escape key there was just such an idiotic move
I used to consider myself a big macbook pro fan. I would probably continue buying reskins of the 2013 model forever as long as they kept updating the hardware. I would rather the product stagnate than have apple repeatedly make it worse