Not a "fan" of Macs but a fanless laptop without having to get 5 year old performance in return and the touch bar is still very rare outside Apple devices.

Aren't the current rumors/expectations that they are dropping the touch bar?

Hopefully. The fact it's never migrated to any other project outside the 'Pro' laptops seems to point to an obvious conclusion.

Agreed, although on that front it completely baffles me that they didn't release a Magic Keyboard Pro with TouchID and Touch Bar at most one release cycle after throwing the Touch Bar into laptops.

I find them completely useless and am ready for them to be gone, but it's like they didn't even try.

That it’s exclusively a Pro feature?

Fanless performance is a microchip innovation not a bold laptop design.