You aren't alone, the thing boggles my mind too. I like better staggered columns layout than ortholinear, but yeah staggered rows don't make any sense, I hate using the keyboard in my notebook.
Joking, I would say only Apple could find the "courage" to introduce columns staggered/ortholinear keyboards... ^__~
Joking, I would say only Apple could find the "courage" to introduce columns staggered/ortholinear keyboards... ^__~