I don’t remap escape either. I remap caps lock to control and that’s about it. In my opinion most of those screaming loudest about the soft escape key haven’t really used it for more than a minute. It’s not as big of a deal as it’s beubg made out to be.
To me using a remapped escape takes more cognitive energy than using the soft escape.
Are you talking about the touchbar esc? Serious question, how the fuck do you use it without tactile feedback?
My approach was to remap caps lock to escape as a press and ctrl as a hold, and then disable the touchbar as much as possible (whoever put unmute and siri next to each other should be taken out and shot btw, that caused me so much annoyance)
It’s just a soft key rather than a physical one. I use it hundreds of times a day with vim and have never had problems.