The last Mac keyboard I thought was great was the Titanium PowerBook (the Aluminum was ever so slightly squishier). The polycarbonate MacBooks got a decent membrane keyboard, while the Unibody MacBook Pros got a pretty terrible keyboard throughout their whole run. The touchbar keyboard is less squishy than the Unibody one (good), but it's way too noisy, the layout sucks, and it only took me a couple weeks before some keys stopped working reliably. Unless the 2017 touchbar keyboard brings back the proper amount of key travel I can't imagine it's much better than the 2016 keyboard.
Funny thing is that I sat down with my boss to troubleshoot some stuff today and he was cursing up a storm about the touchbar keyboard (usually he docks the thing and uses an external keyboard). I've largely gotten used to it, but still haven't memorized the location of the navigation / modifier keys. It's like the iPhone 6/7 -- I've gotten used to the camera hump but it still drives me nuts every single time I put the phone down.
I kinda like my mid-2017 keyboard. It takes getting used to, and is a bit louder than the external or my older 2013 MBP keyboard, but it's quite nice.
The trackpad sensitivity is annoying though. I had to turn off tap-to-click which I'd been used to for decades.
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