Absolutely. Now you only need the keycaps to be half transparent and light up individual keys randomly and you've got that "visual techno-babble" perfected.
I don't know how to answer you exactly. My hands don't hurt. Maybe it's because of the combo of the ortholinear keyboard and the Dvorak layout causing me to move my fingers minimally.
That could be it. Also mechanical keys probably play a role. I had a laptop with flat keys and within a week of use I had to start lugging my keyboard around with me.
Not OP, but I also use flat keycaps, so I thought I'd chime in. I'm not really sure why your hands would hurt with flat keycaps, but one of the reasons I chose to use flats were to allow for easier chording with Plover.
It can be difficult to transition to. But, I went hard mode (I decided to learn touch typing rather than the blind four fingered hunt and peck I'd been doing for years), so I switched from standard qwerty to ortholinear Dvorak, so your mileage may vary.
Looks nice! I daily drove something like this for a couple of years, then transitioned to a split ortholinear layout, so a bit different but pretty much the same thing.