Wait, what's the use case in the modern day for NumLock off? Given all the keys the numpad becomes then, are duplicated as real keys just to the left anyway. NumLock toggling is the most quirky IBM PC hangover in my humble opinion.

> I gotta do data entry with something that can’t be OCR’d for whatever reason

I regularly use the numpad, often in the context of a throwaway spreadsheet where I'm doing some napkin-math. (Or sometimes a tiny Python script, depending on what needs modeling.) Not true "data entry' in the "finish these X pages" sense, I guess.