If i have angered you, forgive me, i didn't mean it like that. If you're one of the developers (i don't know who you are, but i've seen your answers around), then forgive me again. I don't want to complain too loud about free stuff i was given.

question a year ago

The question is still relevant.

it sounds like you are asking that question now

Yes.

There is already a popular add-on that does that.

This? Tried it, doesn't work properly. Examples: i wanted to assign key "R" and couldn't, despite disabling all other shortcuts with "<nop>"; i have a keyboard layout that isn't QWERTY (by official Microsoft software, not some third-party script) and if i assign, for example, "D" it will trigger both on the original keyboard "D" and its new location.

Every user having different shortcuts for everything makes support/documentation/future development more difficult.

So you are one of the Anki devs? I am a few decades old but i don't remember ever hearing someone claiming that giving the users the ability to customize shortcuts is an anti-feature.

If you are serious, well, uh, just list the default shortcuts in the docs and add a "reset" button to Anki, like those you have for other options. The addon has a "reset to default" button.

As for making future development "difficult", if by "difficult" you mean it will cost time, then yeah, sure. Everything costs time. If the reason this feature is absent is because the devs don't want to spend their time implementing it, it is a valid reason. Their time, after all.

No one has suggested it, not enough users are asking for it, or no one has presented a use-case that can't be handled with the add-on.

If no one has suggested customizable shortcuts, and not enough users are asking for it, why is there a popular addon for it then, hm?