On the contrary, I like Apple’s Cmd for its location. It sits right under a thumb, and is less awkward to reach to than to Ctrl with a pinky. I liked it so much on Mac that I added Alt-W and similar Alt-variants of Ctrl-shortcuts to my PC browser and Vim. I also tried to switch Ctrl and Alt at a system level, but it didn’t feel right.
Cmd is the only thing that works well on a Macbook keyboard and everything else is a travesty. `fn` should be banished from the left side entirely and letting it occupy the Fitz Law ideal of the corner is a goddamn atrocity against good design for how little use it gets.
Complex chords are extremely painful when done one handed because the other meta keys are tiny and crammed all together. On Windows keyboards, `fn` either doesn't exist or is in the middle (creating ctrl-fn-win-alt), making for tons of comfortable space for one-handed chorded keys.
Honestly if I given a chance to redesign keyboards, I’d leave these corners completely empty and put cmd, alt, ctrl and probably shift where alt-spacebar-alt group is on a pc keyboard. Space “bar” itself would be just a key, maybe 2x width. Or maybe between B N even.
6x+ is too much honor for a key that produces blanks and allocates 20% of fingers, also useful ones. More than half of my spacebar area has no wear signs if you look closely.
