* Top row of physical buttons wasn't a big deal since I map Caps Lock to Esc.

* Changing volume and brightness is better in the touchbar: the buttons are large enough to get them by touch, and sliding the finger is faster and more granular than repeatly pressing buttons.

* Here's a tip: you don't have to move your finger from the button to the slider. You can just slide from the volume button.

* BetterTouchTool allowed me to have any shortcut in the touchbar.

- Instead of cmd-ctrl-opt-D in Safari, I’d hit the touch bar button that looked like an iPhone.

- instead of hunting and pecking for XScope screen calipers, I would touch the bar button that looked like calipers.

Etc. I had several dozen per-app automations and shortcuts mapped to easily visible and understandable buttons, now I’m back to wondering if it was F3 or F4 that meant “hide the sidebar” in XCode.

This is a huge step backward. The Mac community has decided that it wants to stay in the past; Apple is saying, “fine, you dinosaurs want the ultimate 2015 MacBook Pro? Here it is. We will leave our engineers who think about the future to the iPad.”