I'm going to miss it :( i know that's super unpopular and understand why people don't like it.

Me too. I'm not sure I'll get this new hardware or look for a different laptop, but I'm going to miss the touch bar.

It was incredible for volume and brightness control, occasional uncommon characters input and switching between application tabs.

Yea, it sucked really hard when I needed F-keys, but it had its utility. Honestly, it was a bad idea as a replacement for the F-keys - it should've rather been a separate addition above those. It's not like there isn't enough space for both on a 16" chassis.

Same. I absolutely loved it for video and audio editing but I can understand why most people didn't like it. The new Intel commercials where they try to pass off a few laptops as Macbooks and then "surprise" the people when they're not Macs just reinforced for me how stupid a touchscreen on a laptop is.

Touchscreen is not that bad for laptops that can transform into a tablet, but that's a fairly different class of devices.

It's about time Apple gave up on things that don't work. I'm curious about Force Touch though. The only times I've ever used it it's gotten in the way of what I really meant to do. The only good(?) thing I can say for it, is that like 'the notch', it's an Apple brand.

...and the dreaded notch is back. Time to wait again.

Curious as to why? You get more screen real estate with the notch and, at worst, you have the same display size as before? What's the issue?

I'm not bothered by the notch, but I understand people having different aesthetic preferences. Thickness seems like an odd complaint though. As far as I can tell they are about the same thickness as the previous models (1.55 cm). Am I missing something?

Get a MacBook Air then?