Blunt question I know but this is something I found a bit hilarious and baffling because I'm someone that's fairly adaptable as a gamer and for the most part I'm not that bothered about keybindings these days and being able to rebind them. Some people seem to get really bothered about it though and I was seeing on places like steam some absolute sperg sessions about it.
Do you care about this sort of thing? If the layout is pretty normal with WASD and such I don't understand why people would care that much so I'm trying to go out of my way to understand. One repeating trend I saw weirdly was left handed people complaining about it. My argument is this, there's only so many ways one can rebind the keys when it comes to shortcuts, so I can understand doing it for certain actions, but otherwise it seems silly.
I hate using WASD and normally do not buy games that do not let you rebind the keys. I find using caps lock and tab key as normal keys awkward.
The capslock and c for crouch is one of the few things I get because that's a definite preference thing. I don't like having the light activated and I'm somebody who alt-tabs out of games quite a bit sometimes depending on what I'm doing. Now I think about it my favourite thing to whine about with keybindings is how in some games you've got an autorun key and they decide to bind it to the numlock.
What do you use as a replacement for WASD? And does it depend on what genre it is? I do FPS gaming a lot so WASD feels pretty natural to me. With other games though especially if they're more relaxed I like using the arrow keys for camera movement.
That reminds me of another annoyance. Some games have Alt as a toggle. If that's not rebindable, that's pretty annoying, since if you ever tab out you often end up toggling the setting.
I remember when I tried having tab as boost in Elite: Dangerous. That didn't last past the hangar, and neither did my ship.
Very much my reason why I hate utilising tab and caps lock key to assign them as normal functions in games because they have practical uses in other situations outside the games.
I simply move the entire scheme to the right by one key, so ESDF and I apply that to all the games I play on keyboard. Don't ask me why but I prefer using normal alphabet keys for the most functions. Spacebar is the only exception. Even the shift key, I prefer to not use it as jump button. But I feel someone like me is minority.