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2020 Macs and beyond have the Esc key again.

Can't you add Esc to the control bar?

You used to be able to do that, but they removed it in the most recent update.

If "most recent update" is any version of Big Sur, at the least, you should be able to remap caps lock (or control, option, command, or on an M1 Mac even the Fn key) to escape in the "Modifier Keys..." section of Keyboard System Preferences.

(I was going to say that I still have the Escape key on the Touch Bar for my work laptop, which is true, but then I remembered it's running Catalina...)

Yep, Big Sur update. Unfortunately I can't map to Caps Lock because I have a habit of hitting that key a lot and in most apps I use Escape does a lot of unpleasant things when you hit it accidentally. Another commenter mentioned using Control+[ which seems to work for me.

So Big Sur 11.4 drops it? Because apparently I haven't installed that yet and I still have the escape key in the touchbar.

I'm running 11.4 on a MacBook Pro without a physical escape key, and the escape key remains present in the Touch Bar. I'm genuinely confused as to what the problem is.

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