I think one factor is that if you genuinely type by touch, then the chiclet style keys present a flat surface, while indented keys on traditional keyboards provide a better guide to the key grid that stops you losing alignment with it. On the flat keys there's no indication you've drifted off the key centres until you hit a gap or wrong key. Haven't used newer ones intensively, but I also found older ones also got a bit sticky if hit sufficiently off-centre (not actually sticky, but slightly trapped, requiring more force or an adjusted keypress), while any cheapish full-fat keyboard I've used has consistent pressure across keys.
Is any of this the end of the world? No. Is it weird that something that's mildly irritating is seen as a luxury feature? Yes.
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