Maybe it depends on how big your hands are, but reaching RET doesn't require a move off home for me?
Although it does use a pinkie, it's a nice hand-opening gesture, like when playing piano. As opposed to the left-pinkie hand-scrunching gestures that give some folks trouble.
Perhaps it does. I can't press RET while my three other fingertips rests on j, k, l. But I can press Ctrl (or Caps-Lock which I've remapped) comfortably with resting fingers on s, d, f.
Although it does use a pinkie, it's a nice hand-opening gesture, like when playing piano. As opposed to the left-pinkie hand-scrunching gestures that give some folks trouble.