You just can’t trust anyone who looks at a desktop keyboard and says “Y’know what would really make this better? If it were more like a laptop keyboard that had been brutally squeezed into as little volume as possible!”
Apple’s implementation is arguably among the most competent of the pointlessly-laptopish desktop keyboards; but laptop keyboards are engineering compromises that just don’t make a lot of sense in a situation where height isn’t nearly as much of an issue.
