Yes, but it's not really the feel/travel that was the major problem with those keyboards. It's that they were highly prone to keys getting gummed up and/or failing due to dust and debris ingress.

To be fair, Apple acknowledged the problem and provides free out-of-warranty repair/replacement for keyboard issues on the affected models. But it took them years to come out with a better keyboard.

I think it might have been that then. The keyboard was genuinely like pressing down on a brick on what was at the time a fairly new laptop.