Setting a microfibre cloth every time the laptop is bagged is much of a PITA to be honest. The lazier solution is a screen protector, albeit screen viewing angle or reflection come into consideration.

Personally I moved away from macs, so choosing a laptop with a touch screen was the best option: screens are tough enough, won't scratch under most circumstances, and can be wiped with anything short of diamond dust.

Classic apple apologia: hey user who spent ££££, you're doing it wrong!

Reminds me of that iPhone model where they issued guidance on how to hold it because people lost signal during calls.

Only if Apple provides a stream of clean microfibre cloths and someone to lay it out for me and close the laptop with care.

Otherwise they'd better lay off the drugs that generated that thinness fetish and make sturdy devices again.

(Note that i don't see any button traces on my m3 mbpro yet. it's close to a year old. And I'm not the kind that keeps the tv remote in the plastic bag that it was delivered in, probably the opposite.)

Requiring special care for a common usage, that's a hallmark of bad design.