I don't mind the keyboard on my 2015 for shortish stretches, but do a lot of devs use their laptops directly, like actually in their laps, for most of the day?

My laptop spends 99% of the week on a stand, with the lid closed, and hooked up to dual monitors and a real keyboard (and other various peripherals).

That's really the biggest meh for me about the latest MBPs. The touch bar doesn't do much for me because my lid is mostly always closed. The keyboard doesn't really matter as long as it's useable for a couple of hours at a time.

But the lack of ports is kind of a big loss for me. When I travel and need to show a slide deck or share my screen in general on a projector, having the built in HDMI port generally means I'm safe and dongle free. Inevitably whenever I need a dongle that I own, it's somewhere else- especially my damn Ethernet dongle.

I also dabble, mostly at the hobby level, in micro electronics and I'm wondering what kind of random issues I'm going to have connecting to those over USB. I'm assuming a hub will prevent most issues, but I'm positive I'll spend a number of hours at some point because the C-A/B conversion goes awry in some way.

This is also the main thing making me question the purchase