Lenovo going down the drain. All they had to do was continue the Thinkpad legacy left by IBM. It's honestly breathtaking how badly they've fucked up. After the touch-based function keys, ruining the trackpoint buttons and now this. It's unbelievable.
They brought the trackpoint buttons back on the latest line and you can switch the F-keys back to being the defaults via a bios setting. Just in case you were curious.