MessagEase designed it’s layout with one thumb in mind, go for the og

I love this. Almost as much as using runit as my init system

I’d love to help you iterate a layout based on your B point. I made one based on those ideas with Keyboard Designer and definitely noticed improvements over the original MessageEase layout, but I’d like to get your input too.

That’s the layout I made. I took Dvorak as a starting point, then applied your ideas where I saw fit, and later swaped a few keys around. Holding # opens the keyboard settings btw. I find it a lot better to have larger backspace, symbols and enter keys than having a dedicated settings key (that I accidently press way too often in Thumb-Key)

Bear in mind Keyboard Designer doesn’t allow actions on diagonal slides, so that’s why you might notice them missing