I never actually press down and click anyway for anything other than drag&drop. I doubt I would even notice the difference. I only ever tab it for clicking. Actually clicking is way to much work and makes that annoying sound too.
I use tap to click on my 2011-13 trackpads. With haptic feedback I've temporarily turned tap off, at least until I adapt more to its lighter touch. I have click turned all the way down to light.
Otoh the trackpads I've tried at the Applestore recently, seem to all have a lighter touch than what I have at home, so ymmv.
Of course they'll remove usb ports and replace with usb-c at some point, and sooner rather than later. You're arguing against it as people argued before against removing the DVD drive... "what am I going to do now? I need to play my CDs, my life will come to an end! oh!"... just get over it and move on.