This is exactly why my MBP has been reduced to a $2700 VNC terminal / web browser / mail client. They screwed up keyboard handling in the built-in VNC client a few releases ago, so it’s failing at the most important of those three use cases.
When it eventually dies, I’ll need a replacement with a decent screen, keyboard and trackpad. Apple used to make those, but not any more.
I’ll probably end up running linux on some well-regarded windows laptop.
What broke about keyboard handling? I use the build-in vnc client often (every other vnc client seems to suck). I have trouble with copy/paste...but that's very common with remote login tools.
I have a newer Mac. I didn't like the keyboard at first and still hear about reliability/repair issues, but going back to the mushy keyboards on an older Mac is weird. What's wrong with Apple's trackpads and screens? Trackpads got larger (and get a lot of rogue input when using Linux/Windows), but work great as ever in macOS.
When it eventually dies, I’ll need a replacement with a decent screen, keyboard and trackpad. Apple used to make those, but not any more.
I’ll probably end up running linux on some well-regarded windows laptop.