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"When the pointer is locked, users will see a banner explaining that the mouse cursor is hidden, and that they can get out of pointer lock by pressing the Escape key."

I beg your pardon — which key?

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Funny. But there is still an escape key and it's not altogether impossible to use

Unless of course you touch type in which case you end up looking at the keyboard now....

Agreed, but still not 'impossible'

Except not really, because the hitbox for esc is the entire top left of the bar, as long as you touch the corner, you esc.

Whether or not that's true for someone, "looking at the keyboard" != "impossible to use".

The tocuh bars pretty accessible, you can use ^[ as well.

I've remapped my caps to escape since I never use capslock.

No you don't. Why would you? Touch-typing relies on you knowing where each key is, and the Escape key is still in the same place it always was.

In my experience (with Thinkpad X1 Carbon, which also had a capacitive touch strip for function keys), it doesn't actually work that way. Your muscle memory might involve hitting the key away from the center or at a slight angle, which registers properly on the usual keyboard, but is sufficiently ambiguous with touch that sometimes it does the wrong thing, or sometimes it does nothing at all.

Sometimes I actually miss and hit the area just above it. I have nothing to catch as my finger goes to the area.

If I use a normal keyboard, even on my 12" Macbook, I never need to look at the keyboard, but with the touch bar, I simply cannot press the esc key, i put my finger there, touch it, and sometimes nothing happens, its like it doesn't register that you press it, or maybe im touching it wrong.

Regardless I feel like I'm trying to re-learn to type.

I'm moving to a Dell XPS 15 tho. Done with Apple if this is the direction they are going.

What do you mean by "the direction they are going"? Are you implying that next Apple is going to replace the rest of the keyboard with touchbar-like keys? Because I highly doubt that's going to happen.

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