>>7854 (OP)
>Is there anything you don't like about current keyboard layouts
Everything. No, it's not hyperbole, I do mean everything, it's hard to even know where to start. First of all, it doesn't fit the human hand at all. The staggering is bad, having to keep your hands close together sucks. The thumbs are wasted, being used exclusively for the space bar and maybe alt, while the enter and backspace keys are very far away and modifiers are uncomfortable to reach. In the case of keyboards with nav clusters and numpads, it gets even more fucktarded, because you have to choose between keeping your mouse way to the right (since most people are right-handed and all of that crap is in the way, when it should be on the left, or in a separate peripheral), or the keyboard has to be way off-center with the monitor, so your wrists and/or arms always have to be bent to the left. Your wrists also rest flat down, which is also asking for trouble. It also doesn't take into account that different fingers have different lengths and different levels of strength, which can be solved by having keycaps of different heights and maybe even lighter switches as well.
The key well design that you can see in the Kinesis Advantage 2 (the 360 is a newer one that is a split design, unlike the original, that is a single unit) is a good example of sculpting that makes keys easier to reach, though most ergonomic keyboards are completely flat, and therefore also complete shit. The Keyboardio is one that I found out about more recently, but it has thumb clusters in an arc form, and I think that may be better, but it doesn't have the key wells (though the keys are sculpted, so it should still be good). There's also the Maltron, which is what the Kinesis Advantage is based on, but it's also expensive, except it's built like shit, from what I hear. There's also the Dactyl Manuform, which is 3D-printed. Really, you have to do your own research to know what to get. They are all expensive, and there aren't many good designs out there.
This also applies to the actual layouts. Of course, Qwerty is complete dog shit, but even the more common alternative layouts were designed by morons, as immediately proven by the fact that the letter 'a', one of the most common letters in almost any language, is under the left finger, the absolutely worst finger (weakest and shorter, and also even on the weaker hand for most people), even in Dvorak, Colemak and Workman. BEAKL ( https://ieants.cc/beakl/layouts.php#beakl-layouts ) is the only sane option that I know of. There are multiple designs because I guess the people making it are looking for perfection but don't have a final layout. But the design principles are good, though of course, it's not in any OS, so you have to add it yourself or do it through keyboard firmware. It bases itself on how easy each key is to reach, combined with how common each character is (pic related https://ieants.cc/images/kb-keyboard_effort_grid_20180712.png ).
Maybe someone else here knows another good layout. The more common ones are all shit, though (but still better than Qwerty, which is not difficult).