USB-C doesn't bother me, and I guess that in the near future it will be the standard. I just had to buy a new Ethernet adaptor.
I agree that the touchbar is annoying. I summon Siri way too often, but it's not the end of the world. The keyboard is good.
I just think that it is a bit too expensive for what it is, but I didn't pay for it.
I actually quite like typing on this keyboard, although it was weird at first, but I wonder how these things are going to hold up.
When I first purchased it, (when it was released in store), I had problems with graphical artifacts, but than a new update was released for MacOSX and it's been fine since.
The totally irrational hate this MBP has received is really funny to me. It turns out nerds are super conservative. Change anything and they act like it's the end of the world.
And God forbid you should say you actually like the change and then you get people popping up telling you that you're wrong, you can't trust your own preferences, and you actually don't like it.
It's a slightly modified laptop with a few changes that most people don't care about or prefer. Get over it.
People are showing all the traits related to resistance to change. Seeing this whole thing through the ADKAR model, Apple misses the Awareness and Desire part by "surprising" current customers on the release happenings.
There seems to be an inherent problem with this way of rolling out changes that conflicts with taking care of existing customers. Perhaps treating current and potential customers differently would be an idea.
It is clear that other people don't like it. I hope they are able to find machines that works better for them. I posted my original comment just to give a counterpoint from the perspective of somebody thrilled with the purchase.
The biggest annoyance, to me, is the placement of a touch bar hotspot above the delete key. I hit it all the time. At first, by default, Siri was there. I switched it to be the "show desktop" button, but what I really want to do is to shift everything to the left so that nothing is above the delete key.
Even with that, however, I've adjusted my typing so that I rarely hit the touch bar above the delete key.
I've never had battery problems, the USB-C ports don't bother me because I rarely have anything plugged into the laptop other than the power cable, and in my work environments, we use Apple TVs for conference room televisions, so I can just connect wirelessly to show presentations.
I was skeptical when I bought it, due to all of the moaning that shows up here on HN, but all in all, I'm really enjoying this computer and I'm glad that I replaced my old MBP with it.