No Del key

literally how

Well to be fair, you have to hold the power button down for a few seconds for it to shutdown
And mine doesn't even have disc drive

because it's smarter than the user

You don't need a delete key to copy-paste from stack overflow.

For shutdowns you have to press and hold

The last good model.

Those arrow keys are tiny. That's the biggest offender.

You forgot the worst anti-feature: no esc key

Mine has one! Hooray for 2012 MBPr!

I figured this out on my own within 5 minutes of touching a macbook. Typical Apple users I interact with have no idea and either use the pad or arrow forward.