I had few hopes for the Touch Bar to be actually useful when it was announced. So far it hasn’t been any more useful than physical function keys, and I do miss physical button for volume up/down/mute. It was kinda nice to scroll through a video timeline or media library.

In the end, I don’t mind it being there, but it’s not useful enough to swap physical buttons for. It might be different if they add haptic feedback and Force Touch.

Though, I’ve been running Catalina for some development work, and have found Touch Bar to make a lot of sense in Sidecar context (where you cannot use finger to navigate around, but it shows the Touch Bar at the bottom, so it sort of become the primary navigation for touch)