And surprisingly it’s going pretty well. I’m late to the fad I think, but only a few weeks ago I thought it was bananas to not have arrow keys. Then I learned about the whole tiny-keyboard world, and decided to go for it.
The keyboard I’m using is a Ferris Sweep, which as free and open hardware you may produce yourself.
At the moment I have 9 layers, 7 of them in frequent use. The learning process has been surprisingly not bad. And using QMK I have tweaked the key map a lot already.
If you use a computer a lot, say for your job, it’s worth optimizing how you interact with it.
One of the first things I noticed when I switched to a split ergo is that my shoulder tension went away almost immediately. Also column stagger boards should be the norm. I love keeping my fingers mostly on homerow instead of moving all over like people have to on a row stagger QWERTY board. I switched to Colemak-dh a few years back.