This gave me an idea because I absolutely did not want the esc to be a 1.5u, so I downsized most of the mods entirely.
Keys in blue are the sizes I changed. Cutting down on the size difference between tab and Lshift seemed to fix my problem for the most part, but some things with my mods on r1 had to change. Win is now a 1u, and I’ve completely scrapped the 1.25u control on the right of the spacebar in favor of making raise/lower a bit larger. Things look a little different, but fixing collumnal stagger was the biggest concern I had.
I appreciate all the feedback that I’ve gotten so far! Hopefully I can keep furthering this design. I thought about naming it something like “long” in Japanese but that didn’t quite click so we’ll see how it goes.