I really blame all the people who dare to use other languages than english on the disappearance of the HWKBD.

The thing is; it is just damn expensive to create and maintain physical keyboard layouts for more than one language. With touchscreen the physical keymat disappeared into virtual reality and will never come back up from those depths...

Any time there is a discrepancy between usability and cost the same thing happens, over and over again; cost reduction wins hands down.
That's called consumer choice and unfortunately you cannot revert it.