The very bottom row of the Ergodox layout is pretty useless for me, but I feel like the thumb clusters and the rest of the keyboard is about perfect. I've never liked super minimal keyboards like the Pok3r because they make some of my i3 key combinations insanely difficult/impossible (hitting 5 keys at once in some cases). I find the 70%/~85 key layout about perfect for regular keyboards.

...although, smaller keyboards would let me see more of my anime waifu desk mats :bunthink:

I've done two writeups on my site about keyboard; this one listing even modern mechanical keyboard I've owned:

https://battlepenguin.com/tech/a-history-of-my-mechanical-keyboards/

and this one where I first got my SliceMK:

https://battlepenguin.com/tech/recent-keyboards-the-model-m-slice-mk-and-royal-kludge-84/