many enthusiast keyboards are “tenkeyless” precisely because the numpad is too far from the home row to be actually useful when you get efficient typing patterns worked out

i have a tenkeyless and use programmers dvorak (which is honestly imo pretty brain dead for its use of the num row and still is “fine” for numbers): you get used to it very quickly, and typing numbers with the numpad as an efficiency improvement is more than made up for by using both hands on the num row, and by it being far closer to the home row