If you're trained to touch-type on cherry or topre keyswitches, you're not going to be able to use a non-mechanical keyboard. The muscle action is just different; you're using your muscles to slow your fingers at the bottom of each keystroke rather than applying the energy all at once to your desk. This honestly doesn't make much difference to me, but I know many people who are more sensitive that do notice the difference. To each, his own.

(Analogy: punch the wall as hard as you possibly can. Then do the same action, but slow your fist down as quickly as possible so that it doesn't hit the wall. That's the difference between membrane keyboards and Cherry/Topre/IBM keyboards.)

This is the reason I've come to like them. The travel is super short so you can kind of just tap at them instead of having to hammer down. Older membrane or mechanical keyboards would require some serious effort to fully depress the key, and if you didn't develop a heavy-handed habit you'd often miss letters.

I have a pet theory that Apple's iterations of shorter, thinner, lower travel keyboards is just training us slowly for the day when a glass keyboard is the de-facto standard.

The only trouble I have with the iPad-sized keyboard, which is virtually the same in terms of layout, is that accidental taps are much easier. It's like handling a loaded gun, you can't leave your fingers lazying about. If it required a certain amount of force, just jog the motion sensor slightly, and had a slight tactile feel to the keys, it might end up being even better.