I would be okay with a keyboard-less droid also, though I actually prefer the physical keyboard. I like typing on the virtual one, but I make a lot more typos (sometimes due to some lag in the keyboard). Also, I don't like how the virtual one takes up the whole screen, preventing you from reading above it (like when responding to a text or e-mail, you can't read the old one while typing on it).
I tend to use both, and find that I am a bit faster on the physical one. I think part of it is because I slow myself down on the virtual one because of the lag, shrug. Anyway, as to how I got "good" at the physical one, I used to use The V by LG (one of the earlier phones that flipped out to a qwerty keyboard) and had tons of time on that, plus I'm a good typist anyway (80-90 WPM isn't unreasonable), so I'm sure that helps me. Really, it just takes practice and knowing where the keys are.