Aftertouch

I agree.

I have to press so hard to get aftertouch that I'm afraid I may damage the board.

G8 owner here. Indeed, aftertouch is hardly usable on the G8. I heard from people who own the smaller versions, that it's not a problem. Probably due to the different keybed.

I own a G7 and the aftertouch is easy to trigger, I use it all the time.
Definitly much better than the Fantom X's, I used to have an X6 and I practically had to do a handstand on the keyboard to trigger aftertouch
I had a G8 before my G7 and I remember the aftertouch being quite hard, but not as bad as the X's.

I've been using an XP50 for a long long time, which had a rather bad keyboard. The aftertouch kicked-in quite hard, so when I got the G6, it seemed rather easy to trigger. I had to learn how to put less strength in order to control it. Now it seems that I can master it easily enough. Everything is a matter of time to get used to.

I believe that G6 and G7 are pretty much the same in this area. The G8 on the other side, having a weighted keyboard, obviously needs more strength to control both velocity and aftertouch.

Yes, i know this also from another instrument, a yamaha, where aftertouch is really easy to trigger. But this is also only a 61 key version. But however, also for a weighted key version the aftertouch reachment-level is to high imho for the FG8.

On G7 the aftertouch is hard to gain too.

Maybe the aftertouch differs between different units? On my G7 the aftertouch is really easy to trigger, any easier than that and I'd be triggering it by mistake sometimes.