I am also shocked to see this issue marked as resolved. It is not resolved. A decision has been taken to reject the suggestion and no explanation is provided.
In practical terms, for users with a variety of movement/motor-control challenges, using a mouse is substantially harder than using a keyboard. Also, when a user has a decent ergonomic keyboard, mouse-clicks are more likely to contribute to RSIs.
In terms of design philosophy, I have yet to hear a good reason for the increasingly widespread practice of reducing or eliminating customization options. It is as if companies like Adobe and Microsoft want to eliminate the possibility of becoming what we used to call a 'power user.' So many products are no longer designed with a serious production user in mind and are instead built with the nonsense notion of 'intuitive user interfaces' justifying all manner of bad choices and change for change's sake.
Use case from my work: I frequently need to remove sections of PDF files. I work on a very large display. Why should I need to move a mouse a long way to click something when I could just press a key combo to open the Organize Pages tool?
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I am also shocked to see this issue marked as resolved. It is not resolved. A decision has been taken to reject the suggestion and no explanation is provided.
In practical terms, for users with a variety of movement/motor-control challenges, using a mouse is substantially harder than using a keyboard. Also, when a user has a decent ergonomic keyboard, mouse-clicks are more likely to contribute to RSIs.
In terms of design philosophy, I have yet to hear a good reason for the increasingly widespread practice of reducing or eliminating customization options. It is as if companies like Adobe and Microsoft want to eliminate the possibility of becoming what we used to call a 'power user.' So many products are no longer designed with a serious production user in mind and are instead built with the nonsense notion of 'intuitive user interfaces' justifying all manner of bad choices and change for change's sake.
Use case from my work: I frequently need to remove sections of PDF files. I work on a very large display. Why should I need to move a mouse a long way to click something when I could just press a key combo to open the Organize Pages tool?