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I had a 1983 Osborne Executive “luggable” computer gathering dust in my garage about ten years ago. It worked but I had no use for it. I put it on eBay and Craigslist expecting a collector to buy it. Instead a guy in my city bought it. He ran a construction company and used an old Osborne to run part of the business, wanted a spare just in case.
I not only understand, but whole-heartedly agree with, the whole if-it-aint-broke-don't-fix-it mentality, but those keyboard are atrocious.
For touch-typists having decades of experience at the time, most of whom had quite long fingernails too, they could only laugh at some keyboards today that cost more than the C64.
You think?

Notably, at the time, Commodore 64's keyboard was actually seen as a strength against the competition.

if it aint broke get a new one. is "capitalism".