don't you like doing finger contortions to use all the modifier keys?

I think it is the single most convincing proof that we are being secretly replaced by lizard people with 8 fingers!

8 fingers to each of the 4 hands, to be clear :)

You probably didn't grow up with horrors like the WordPerfect function key strip or being faced with a keyboard like that on the ZX80/81/Speccy etc.

Yes, it's a miracle that after 40 years of typing every day, my fingers still work. But that may be a biased view on my part; there may be lots of programmers out there with arthritis in their fingers, carpal tunnel syndrome, and other occupational diseases.

They aren't always the same: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20110809-00/?p=99...

Also, even when they are the same, on certain laptops you literally hit the key-rollover problem.