Usability/feedback: newer terminal layout, I struggle with it and I feel like others will too - accessibility problem?

For a while, the keyboard layout for terminals changed one single key to allow access to terminal-like additional keys, which brought up a page similar to this:

This meant that 1. the terminal was in its default letter pane almost alike to everywhere else (=good), 2. still had comfortably large buttons. (=also good) It needed more taps to get to special keys though, which I understand you likely wanted to improve.

Now it apparently looks like this:

Sadly I can't help but feel like this is a downgrade in many ways.

I tried to put myself into the shoes of who might like this: I assume if you're a super precision typer and have the brain wired to use a quite different layout in the terminal than everywhere else, then I suppose this could feel like a better screen space use. However, my fingers are too clumsy and I feel like many older people will have trouble with this just based on eyesight, and the letters/numbers being laid out so differently in only some apps really confuses me. But staying in this view of who likes this, even then I do wonder: if you need to hit such small buttons, does the required increased aim really make it worth the saved additional taps to get to the different keys? I feel like it doesn't necessarily make up for that, so I am wondering whom this even benefits.

And in the non-optimal case, e.g. anyone with worse eyesight, more shaky fingers, ... I feel like this is kinda bad. I hate typing on this, it feels painful, unforgiving, disorienting. Am I alone with this, is it just me? Did you test this with a wider range of users? I don't want to overreact, but I hate it and especially the bottom row feels like it was made to mock me when I try to use it, and I feel like many users might share this experience.

On a side note, it also made me wonder whom these new layouts are tested with before they're decided upon, because accessibility testing could become quite essential here especially as the userbase grows to avoid mishaps like this (assuming of course anyone agrees with me that this is a potential mishap). I was quite surprised to see this just appear downstream, and wondered why nobody else had complained about it in the process. Or is it really just me?