@jesse, trying to steer back to the topic, I’ve gone ahead on the Dvorak thread and put forth that the following is ideally what would stay common between the various layouts. This is my guess at your view, partly from what you’ve said, and partly from reading between the lines.
Does this look about right? Or should some of these be blank, or suggested rather than strongly desired? (Maybe you don’t care much that enter and tab are in those spots, for example.) Ideally we could get from you one of these editable keyboard layouts highlighting a couple of levels of desire for common keys between layouts. This would help focus efforts.