I hope low-profile will stay around and hopefully get better - but the situation at the moment isn't inspiring. Virtually no interchangeability is the big problem here, so instead of the competitive development we see in MX we have several manufacturers all trying to protect their own IP.

Couple that with the inherent difficulty in getting short-travel switches to feel good, the years of development time low-profile is behind standard-profile, and the involvement of the big keyboard manufacturers with their interest in an unchanging pinout and cap mount, and the picture isn't bright. If some manufacturers would get together and co-develop a switch, pooling the royalties, things might improve. But it doesn't seem likely at the moment.

The big prize for us enthusiasts would be a switch fully compatible (in footprint anyway) with standard MX. Then we might get more widespread take-up of low-profile, when it's easy to just swap in LP switches to try. There's probably a technical reason why someone hasn't done it already... but these problems are there to be solved ;)

This will all be sorted out in 20 years or so when the patents run out. But the question is whether any low-profile switch (apart from ML) will survive that long... we could end up in a Romer-G situation, where the bad name gained by the early attempts hinders take-up of the later versions.