I definitely prefer the lower travel distance. Personally I find it much less tiring / RSI-inducing than a normal mechanical keyboard / cherry MX switches. I'm not heavily bottoming out or anything that are frequent "have you tried...", and "just don't bottom out lol" doesn't work for me - I've experimented for nearly a decade now, I'm pretty confident. Long travel distances are definitely not for me.
I've got a custom keyboard with choc low-profile switches, and I like it a lot better. It's about mid-way between an Apple and a cherry MX, and I'm not sure I notice or care to get any lower distance since these are so easy to find. Unfortunately I'll have to go a lot more custom to get that in a Kinesis Advantage/Dactyl-like setup, and I haven't done that yet.
I do prefer MX key caps though (DSA profile, or roughly), the smaller center and deeper curve seems to help me calibrate better. Choc caps often lean hard into the low-profile thing and are very flat, and I'm not super fond of that.
If you like those kind of keycaps try MT3 MiTO keycaps, I have the same preference - sculpted keycaps with smaller centers center and those are my endgame
Do they have choc versions? All I'm seeing is MX... though google's fu has grown weak so it might just be that it's being drowned out by Drop at the moment.
I've got a custom keyboard with choc low-profile switches, and I like it a lot better. It's about mid-way between an Apple and a cherry MX, and I'm not sure I notice or care to get any lower distance since these are so easy to find. Unfortunately I'll have to go a lot more custom to get that in a Kinesis Advantage/Dactyl-like setup, and I haven't done that yet.
I do prefer MX key caps though (DSA profile, or roughly), the smaller center and deeper curve seems to help me calibrate better. Choc caps often lean hard into the low-profile thing and are very flat, and I'm not super fond of that.