I mean, who uses touch screens for development? I can't really imagine a scenario where it would be helpful for me. Maybe when doing work in Illustrator and Photoshop, but I usually use a different machine for that anyhow, because of Adobe's lack of Linux support.
I don't want to pay for something I won't use.
I am otherwise actively looking for a laptop. System76 does not have European keyboard layouts, otherwise I would go with them.