I dug out my Twiddler like a month ago but still haven't been back.

I was barely competent as a coder last time around (using TabSpaces layout). I'd love to one day be good at this. Its wild how much text entry I do on a phones touchscreen and I'm done ways it's pretty nice, but I'd love the eyes-free one-handed type-as-i-think capability that Twiddler alone can bring me.

The touchpad seems smart enough an upgrade. I'm pretty sure the joystick is digital 8-way, but even if it's analog I barely ever used it. Ideally I'd love for there to be a solid position tracking standard they could drop in, so that it's be viable with XR or for headless gestures. But it doesn't seem like there's off the shelf options for that? Years of positioning & every input device has DIY'ing a whole damned software stack.