If you're referring to the "mechanical keyboard" and similar subreddit trends, it's pretty obvious that the fascination is in the DIY and styling aspect.
It's amazing how many switches you can find today, mostly boring variations of the mx types where people post minutes-long videos of sound and smoothness when lubed.
And how it does rainbow. This is clearly what sells.
Ergonomic keyboards are a completely different market. You can't review an ergo keyboard in 5 minutes, or 5 days. The effort required to learn, and then judge the aspect of a different layout is much, much harder and time consuming. I'd argue it takes months by my own experience.
Ergonomic also means something different to each of us. For people coming in with RSI or other issues, there's no single "best" solution.
What I'm quite happy with though is that this keyboard craze has still increased the number of alternative/ergonomic layouts (and somewhat lowered the price) anyway.
It's amazing how many switches you can find today, mostly boring variations of the mx types where people post minutes-long videos of sound and smoothness when lubed.
And how it does rainbow. This is clearly what sells.
Ergonomic keyboards are a completely different market. You can't review an ergo keyboard in 5 minutes, or 5 days. The effort required to learn, and then judge the aspect of a different layout is much, much harder and time consuming. I'd argue it takes months by my own experience.
Ergonomic also means something different to each of us. For people coming in with RSI or other issues, there's no single "best" solution.
What I'm quite happy with though is that this keyboard craze has still increased the number of alternative/ergonomic layouts (and somewhat lowered the price) anyway.