Beauty is in the eye of the chonky laptop holder.

I couldn't care less how ugly my keyboard is.

Sure, but normal people care about aesthetics, and unsurprisingly big corporations cater to that.

So Lenovo puts trackpoints on their ThinkPads, which is ugly. Also, big corporations cater to aesthetics. Which is it?

I didn't say corporations can't have an ugly laptop lineup.

I'm saying that the trend of consumer/business laptop lineups is to make all of them look similar to a MacBook, because that's what most people want. Of course there will always be exceptions, like the ThinkPad.

I'm not even interested so much on laptop keyboards. I always work on my desktop setup with an external keyboard.

It's really hard to get an external keyboard with a track point. For laptops there are a lot of models to chose from, both used and new.