I mostly agree with you, and as I've said my post about this in The Unshut, I would compare the Touch Bar in the MacBook Pro with 3D Touch on the iPhones: it looks nice on a demo, but I don't think it is as practical as Apple want us to believe.

http://theunshut.com/2016/10/27/will-the-touch-bar-save-the-...

Enjoy that ZBook, by the way.