> you should just optimize your workflows around the keyboard instead of the mouse.
That's quite patronising. Tools should grow around the user, not the other way around.
Trackpad is just wrong for text based applications. For instance, you can't precisely select large amounts of text and navigation, placing the cursor precisely is just a nightmare.
A pro tip for precisely selecting text on a trackpad: you can click in one place, then scroll or move the cursor freely, then shift-click somewhere else. This works in applications with a caret like a text editor, but also in non-editable text in most applications.
That most of the time doesn't work, because it somehow loses where was the beginning of your selection and you also don't have any visual feedback. This also doesn't work on non-editable text.
That's quite patronising. Tools should grow around the user, not the other way around.
Trackpad is just wrong for text based applications. For instance, you can't precisely select large amounts of text and navigation, placing the cursor precisely is just a nightmare.