No, that would still suck - but at least I guess you could disable it.
I thought the worst thing about touchbar would be "no feedback on the ESC key". That's bad, but boy was I wrong. Turns out that the far worse thing for me is that I rest my left hand slightly above the number row. With touchbar, any touch, no matter how light, will trigger random stuff (very often, repeated "esc" keypresses, with the predictable disrupting effects)
i'm sure it would still suck for a lot of people but all i was saying is that if they wanted to change the product it should have been an addition of the bar as an enhancement instead of the swap out of a beloved row of keys.