And touchpad designers too. I have a Lenovo Thinkpad Yoga and the Touchpad is unusable. It has this mechanic click where the full touchpad lowers down, and while it is doing this the mouse moves slightly. Therefore it is hard to click precisely on something if during the click the mouse is moving. They probably never tested this before deciding to put this into a thinkpad or they tested it and nobody cared to hear what the testers said...
Worse. They market tested it on their best laptop (the X1 Carbon). It flunked on the market, with the 2nd gen X1 receiving appalling reviews. The 3rd generation X1 Carbon reverted to the old touchpad and its marvelous Thinkpad mouse buttons.
They can always hire even more incompetent batch than they had in the past 3 years. And my suspicion is that it was forced upon them from management that probably stays in place to make sure there is no improvement in the future either.
My vote is to sack the guy who decided that the AC/battery indicator only needed to be visible when the lid is closed. Maybe hire him again just so you can sack him again... 3200x over?
It doesn't bother me that much: (mine) beeps when you (un)plugin the AC adapter, and you can also consult your operating system for it's current state, in the few case you wish to access this data.
Turning off that hideous beep was always the first thing I did when I got a new Thinkpad.
You know, back in the day when buying a new Thinkpad was a thing I would consider doing.
And drop down hinges designers :)
What are drop down hinges?
This something like in thinkpad x240 and x250 but up to x 230 were not drop down hinges, maybe looks modern but not thinkpadish IMHO :)