I've been doing the mechanical keyboard thing for a few years now. Always on a budget, never the super expensive stuff. At this point I was wanting to try a gasket mount keyboard. That's right around when this board was revealed.The typing experience is great. I got the linear reds. They feel as smooth as it gets compared to the different boards and switches I have tried. The stabilizers all sound decent, no rattle. I wasn't sure how a gasket mount would feel in person. It doesn't really flex or bounce much unless you sit there and press down hard just to watch it move. But it does soften everything when typing and reduce some of the noise; the force of your keystrokes are no longer being trasmitted through solid mounting points or screws and into the rest of the keyboard and outer case. The foam gaskets around the edge are absorbing everything. It is very satisfying to type on. These gaskets DO move at least, there are other boards out there that are gasket mounted yet the end result is still very stiff with little movement. You can squish these keys down and watch the gasket work.I've seen a video where someone disassembled the board and showed how the PCB (circuit board) has flex cuts in it which would allow for further flex and typing feel, but it is mated to a steel switch plate. This kind of defeats the purpose, I wish this board had a polycarbonate plate. You can point to the limitations of the price point and say perhaps a steel plate is cheaper, but it seems like the flex cuts in the PCB would be an extra step/expense, so I don't know why those are present, only to have a steel plate. We could have taken the typing feel even further if those flex cuts were allowed to work.The keycaps are a bit of a weak spot, thin and slippery, but it's understandable. This is something easy to customize anyway with a set of keycaps that you enjoy. At least they included a few extra accent keys.The only other issues I have come down to personal preference. I wish the one color choice wasn't red. Blue, green, white, I'd rather be stuck with just about any other color if I can't have RGB. A budget board limited to the red color choice is something already done by certain other brands, it would have been nice to have a different color represented here as a different brand identity. I will probably leave the backlight off most of the time, but then it is hard to read the keys.I also prefer smaller form factor keyboards like 65%, so although I am enjoying this board, it is larger on my desk than I prefer. It has the function row that I don't need, and the extra keys on the right side taking up 2 inches more space. Obviously I knew this going in, not really counting this as a fault, I just hope they take this "Keychron Basic" branding even further, and we get different board sizes and colors.Ultimately I think this board is important for what it will hopefully do to the overall market and hobby, more than just how it stands as a keyboard alone. This is a nice leap forward and a shortcut for people entering the hobby, you can get a gasket mount keyboard with incredible sound and typing feel at this price now. That's crazy to think about. As long as you are ok with the TKL layout this is a pretty great option to start with.Although, at the last second, it occurs to me some of the compromises are pretty severe. A big thing about the keyboard hobby is customization. Without hot swap sockets for the switches, you won't be trying different switches on this board (unless you want to solder one by one). You won't be performing common mods on the stabilizers to make them quieter because the soldered switches won't allow you to remove them. And then you have the one backlight color limiting what you might do in terms of keycap color or overall theme. So in the end you are kind of giving up a lot just to get a gasket mount keyboard at this price. There are similarly priced budget boards that will have all those other features, but with a standard mounting style, so you have to decide what you'd rather have. If you don't care about changing switches or RGB colors, then I would say get some nicer keycaps and this is still a good buy. All we need now is for competition to push this even further, and to get more features added back in at lower price points.Overall I think this is a pretty unique idea that they had and I'm glad they did it. I mostly wish it had a PC plate and a different color.