I was struggling to correct the devastating mistake of capslock on the latest (and spectacularly awful) Gnome and I realized why I feel so strongly about this.
It also explains why I can’t type ampersands and parentheses as well as other characters. I have also been known to hesitate typing equals. I wonder how long it would take for me to be comfortable typing on that again?
I don’t go crazy insisting that modern Tab keys be replaced with Esc. That’s a bit of a sanity check which reassures me that putting a Ctrl to the left of the A key is truly the correct thing to do, at least for programmers. And I don’t even use Emacs! NO, I NEVER DO GET NOSTALGIC FOR TYPING IN ALL UPPER CASE.