My main statement is that a thread about only this question isn't relevant because it's just a part of the argumentation against Latin letters, which haven't any sense without the whole.
It's called "divide and conquer". You break up a large problem into smaller problems. Then, after finding the solution to those problems, you then put them back together to help solve the larger problem. That is the essence behind this thread: solving one of the smaller problems so that we can use the solution in the larger discussion.
-God Ginrai
Yes, I agree with this approach. But you have to be careful how to combine such partial results. E.g., it is theoretically possible that you get the following partial results:
- 15% does not like the Pandora layout because of confusion with the keyboard (so 85% thinks it is OK, let's keep it!)
- 15% does not like the Pandora layout because of confusion with emulated ABXY buttons in different spots (so 85% thinks it is OK, let's keep it!)
- 15% does not like the Pandora layout for aesthetical reasons (so 85% thinks it is OK, let's keep it!)
- 15% does not like the Pandora layout because it is boring (so 85% thinks it is OK, let's keep it!)
- 15% does not like the Pandora layout because the order of the letters is not logical (so 85% thinks it is OK, let's keep it!)
Maybe after those 5 hypothetical polls someone will say: we have done 5 polls now, the Pandora layout was fine for a big majority in all of them, so let's keep it!
But with those poll results, even assuming the poll results are all representative of the community as a whole, there could be anything between 15% and 75% that wants to get rid of the Pandora layout: 15% if they all overlap, 75% if they don't overlap at all. Actually it can even be more than 75% because there could be other reasons for not liking the Pandora layout that aren't polled.