Why Dvorak, When Dvořák

Musical instruments, stringed ones in particular have many features of a good ergonomic keyboard layout. Since spending some more time studying music more seriously, I've lost interest in optimizing typing. I used to type Dvorak (got over 100 WPM), but have since switched back to standard QWERTY, the default of the US.

When the (physical) input of what you are doing is reflected in the (physical) output, it feels good. Computer keyboards will always be characterized by arbitrariness because there is a lot of chaos in writtelanguage. Even if by chance a keyboard was designed where the arrangement of letters somehow matched some phonetic properties or something like that, this wouldn't necessarily translate to a nice typing experience.

Playing stringed instruments is tactically satisfying because the inputs you apply (bowing, picking, etc.) translate immediately into the sounds produced. Even looking at different ways of tuning a guitar (e.g. standard EADGBE versus DADGAD), the "logic" of fretting to get higher pitched sounds remains. The layout of the instrument (and therefore the "inputs" it takes) will always be reflected in the sounds produced. Keyboard instruments typically do this, but I guess you could program a synthesizer to behave more arbitrarily if you really wanted to... but why? Just type to experience that chaos!