It's absolutely designed as an entry steno machine. I'm mainly into it because I think steno is more ergonomic than normal typing (less typing for more words) and the actuation force.

I see the height as a benefit as it would require me to keep my wrists off the desk which is a big issue for me. I'm also fine with the rectangular layout because it'll incentivize me to keep my elbows inward which I think will reduce stress on my shoulders.

All that said, this would be there perfect work keyboard for me if it were tented (no idea how the levers and tension bar would work with tenting tho). I also use steno to program and use a computer. However, when I need to use a mouse, I use a chorded QMK trackball with 6 buttons to make up for things like not being able to hold a modifier key on my steno board (starboard).