I started computing in the early 80s and have always wondered why there wasn't a standard keyboard button with Cut,Copy,Paste.
Thing of all the (wo)man-hours in computing lost due to the slight difference in people finding the modifier key+key (including the slight increase in error rates) and the just having a dedicated Cut/Copy/Paste keys.
I remember some keyboards in 90s to early 00s - back when tall keycaps were the norm - having secondary labels written on the side of the key facing the user, usually indicating the standard Windows shortcut for that key. The exact set would vary, but pretty much all of them labelled X/C/V as Cut/Copy/Paste. Here's a good example:
Thing of all the (wo)man-hours in computing lost due to the slight difference in people finding the modifier key+key (including the slight increase in error rates) and the just having a dedicated Cut/Copy/Paste keys.