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Further points in defense of USB keyboards
A basic problem is that the range of quality (eg. mechanical) bluetooth (BT) keyboards is very limited. Take, for instance, the Filco Minila Air which is one of the few such keyboards in production. It is both very expensive and doesn't even have a standard key layout because, for whatever reason, they felt they needed to make it unusually small.
Another solution is to use some sort of Bluetooth (to USB) hub or adaptor but again here the options are very limited in number, expensive and have their quirks (certain key combinations do not work etc). Such devices also do not look to be very convenient.
Perhaps the most basic problem is that people have to put together these workarounds in spite of the fact that the hardware can clearly support USB host mode. The resistance to this is all firmare/software related.
I'm certainly glad that it does at least support BT keyboards but there is little that is ideal about them.
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