I see this as a very spurious argument: the 40% Vortex Core doesn’t abandon QWERTY because they omit the number row and the user will have to learn new tricks anyway. The point is that the Atreus user is likely to also own a big workstation keyboard and thus I kept the base layer keys in the same place. This is in the spirit of this thread - it started as how best to scale down the Malt layout to the model01 and has turned to discussing how to adapt RSTHD to the Atreus (I took this liberty as these layouts share some characteristics). There is already a thread for discussions pertaining to the merits of various letter arrangements here. You should find a larger audience to debate with there!
In the meantime I will attempt to bring what I learnt with the Minidox to a proposed Atreus keymap, although the minidox has proved so successful I am starting to wonder if I need those extra keys on the Atreus after all 