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> I find the lack of response in the keys unpleasant, but I can still type at full speed and accuracy when I use it.

I'm not worried about losing speed, I'm worried about developing hand and wrist pain over time, which seems, at least for me, to be an issue with using low travel keyboards. Maybe I just need to learn to type with a lighter touch.

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> Maybe I just need to learn to type with a lighter touch.

This. Typing fast doesn't require you to beat the keys into submission.

I've been fortunate enough not to have any type of chronic RSI pain associated with typing. Am I reading you correctly that your pain is due to striking the keys and slamming into the keyboard when the key bottoms out?

That has been my experience. I have noticed that my mechanical keyboard is much gentler and less likely to induce RSI relate pain because I almost never have hard impacts due to bottoming the keys out. On my MacBook (2013 15" rMBP) it's a different story.

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