My solution has been to place an Apple bluetooth keyboard -on top- of my 15" MBP keyboard and that seems to work pretty well, but wow, it shouldn't have come to this...
While it had been a common complaint before, Casey Johnson really blew the story up in 2017 https://theoutline.com/post/2402/the-new-macbook-keyboard-is...
WSJ: "Appl Still Hasn’t Fixd Its MacBook Kyboad Problm" https://www.wsj.com/graphics/apple-still-hasnt-fixed-its-mac...
https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+...
Surprised that anyone has missed this, as it has been front-paged on HN dozens if not hundreds of time.
https://support.apple.com/en-ca/keyboard-service-program-for...
Nerd entitlement rage is monotonous. The latest models 4th gen keyboards are pretty much fine.
- they'll only replace the keyboard for up to 4 years after the purchase date
- they'll replace it with the same faulty keyboard, so there's a good chance it'll have the same fault again, only once it's put of warranty
We know they've gone through several revisions that have purportedly reduced the incidents of problems, and they'll likely go through more improvements. When you get your keyboard replaced they will use the better variant.
I would like to think that maybe if some person at Apple runs a report for returns and see that "keyboard" accounts for a huge majority of returns, they may actually act with some semblance of haste.
I did that with my 2008 unibody Macbook Pro (yes, Macbook keyboards also sometimes broke pre-2016), which also suffered from EM209 [1] (second time, beyond Apple's free-fix period). I used heavy-duty rubber bands to both hold the screen together along the non-visible borders, and affix the wireless keyboard over the computer's. Certainly something to never ever show anyone else, but completely functional with the exception of the inability to close up the computer. Only after failing to start one day did I replace it with the 2012 non-Retina I am typing on; come to think of it, it's now exactly as old as the 2008 when it completely died, albeit in full working order. (It did need a keyboard repair. I am hard on keyboards.)
[1] https://randyzwitch.com/broken-macbook-pro-hinge-fixed-free/
Abso-fucking-lute bliss! I think my productivity has gone up literally 80%