It's a useless gimmick that removed some major functionality for me (a physical escape key). Bought the 2016 15" and was forced to get the stupid touchbar. My 2012 rMBP was on it's last legs and I really needed something new. Give me a bit more thickness, a regular keyboard, and high repairability. I hate the new MBP, keyboard and touch bar. Well, two weeks later I got the laptop back because their system kept saying it's not ready despite being back at the Apple Store four days after drop off. I spent hours on the phone with Apple explaining what happened. Well, a few days later I am told I need to pay $99 and use an AppleCare+ incident to fix the broken keyboard that the Genius broke. So I took it home, dd'd the disk to another one (use rdisk!) and dropped it off for repair. This final time it was better but still terrible and worse than when I brought it in. At this point the Rep said it had to be sent in for repairs. The second try it was basically entirely broken and only worked with extremely hard presses. The first try it was fixed, but the key cap was only half attached.
He did say they could try something to fix it in the back with some special tools. I went to the Genius Bar which told me the keyboard was unrepairable and the only way to fix it was, literally, to replace the entire top case of the computer. I couldn't do anything to get it to go back to normal nor pry the key cap off to see if a bit of dirt had got underneath. Mine recently had its left arrow key become stiff in one corner. I literally stopped using my MBP without an external keyboard and mouse/trackpad at every practical opportunity. I have long ranted here (check my posting profile) about the touch bar.
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