It's honestly astounding that some Chinese vendor isn't making a laptop with a passable keyboard with hardware supported by 9front/NetBSD/Redox.
It almost sounds silly, but we used to do shit like this... a whole bunch of companies made cards that identified as VGA cards and worked perfectly as VGA cards. A whole bunch of vendors made Ethernet cards that for all intents and purposes looked to the OS like an NE2000 card, and just worked perfectly. Pretending to be a device you aren't instantly becomes a problem as soon as you aren't really compat, but if you ARE compat, this is like fucking magic. Instead we continue to plumb the depths of short runs of buggy shit that's completely incompatible with everything. Gimmie the good fake shit again.