The larger trackpad, the touchbar, and the crappy keyboard might all be easing us towards fully touchscreen computers.
The larger trackpad gives us more touchable real estate, getting us used to making gestures to control screen behavior.
The touchbar is similar- getting us used to changing collections of touchable buttons rather than the static keys available on a keyboard.
Maybe a crappy keyboard is part of that plan, providing a worse user experience to make the transition away from keyboards completely an easier pill to swallow.
The larger trackpad gives us more touchable real estate, getting us used to making gestures to control screen behavior.
The touchbar is similar- getting us used to changing collections of touchable buttons rather than the static keys available on a keyboard.
Maybe a crappy keyboard is part of that plan, providing a worse user experience to make the transition away from keyboards completely an easier pill to swallow.