Keyboard eject key delay, my feelings

Here are my feelings about the fairly new feature of "keyboard eject key delay":
I don't like it [ Edited by Host ]

Apple changed it because many of us were absolutely sick of the tray opening when we did nothing but graze that key by accident. Now there are no more accidental tray openings...it's great !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yay! woohooo!!!!!

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