Ever is a pretty stark qualifier; try some of the dreaded "chiclet keyboards" on, say, the TRS-80 CoCo or the IBM PCjr, or worse yet, the vile little membrane keyboards of the cheapest-of-the-cheapest "home computers" like the Magnavox Odyssey² or the Timex-Sinclair 1000, and the AppleDesign will feel like blessed, luxurious relief by comparison. But yeah, compared to the awesomeness that was the Extended Keyboard II (second only to the IBM Model M for hands-down best keyboard I've ever used,) it really was quite a step down.