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The thing is, I only like the Trackpoint in a laptop. It's really nice to scroll while holding the middle mouse button and just shifting my finger. That way, my hand is ready to type, unlike using the trackpad, where I have to move my hands to type, and it works well in my largely keyboard-driven workflow (ViM for text editing, Trackpoint for web browsing).

On a desktop, I have multiple screens and way more real estate, so the Trackpoint isn't nearly as effective and it's worth using the mouse instead.

But I honestly don't use my laptop all that often, so it's something I'm fine doing without. But all other things being similar, I'll prefer the Trackpoint since it's a nice value add.

It's cool that they're making those keyboards though. I have and nice mechanical keyboards, so I'm not looking for one, but I would be very interested in a Framework-compatible keyboard with a Trackpoint.