I don't know about this. Compare Blender 2.8 to 2.7. A big part of the ui revamp was exposing formally menu/hotkey only stuff into the viewport UI. Things like selecting which orthographic view angle needed the numpad before, you can still do that but they added a nice minimal GUI for doing it too. Things in general got easier with the mouse, but it didn't take away from the powerful vim-like keyboard controls.