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I personally hate the touchbar. I always have a keyboard hooked up to my mbp so I use it rarely to begin with. When I do use it, its primarily to adjust the volume. The fact that the layout changes and I can no longer really use muscle memory to do certain things makes it a pain for me to use.

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The fact that the layout changes and I can no longer really use muscle memory to do certain things makes it a pain for me to use.

It seems like a complete contradiction to the philosophy driving UX design on the Macbook prior to the touchbar. The trackpad gestures and the switch to 2 finger scrolling to make it the same as multitouch on tablets -- these are both muscle-memory friendly decisions. The touchbar goes against this!

I have to say, on my physical keyboard, I still have to look at it to change the volume. It's simply not something I do frequently enough to have proper muscle memory for it. In fact, anything past F1-F4 I have to glance at to make sure I'm hitting the right button.

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