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"No keyboard backlighting" is a show-stopper. Nuts.

You're not the audience, obviously.

It's a show-stopper for the main audience: students.

It just looks slightly nicer. Touch typists don’t look at the keyboard anyways. And if you care enough about looks, you’ll want RGB lighting.

Plenty of people work in dark or dim places, like school classrooms, where backlighting is great and RGB lighting is useless.

That you seem to think everyone shares your needs and goals makes you a far less effective participant in these kinds of discussions. Maybe think for a bit before asserting what people who care about backlighting need it for and don't.

Aren't classrooms usually well lit?

No. And multi-resident dorm rooms much less so.

Very small percentage of students (the primary audience) are touch typists.

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