I am currently playing the Beta, and I seriously hope that the 8-May release version will have keyboard shortcuts (KS).
The 2 major issues, related to the absence of KS, in my version (v1.0.1.22 of 28 March) are :
* When you select the units' available-for-order button on the right edge of the screen, you have to swing the mouse way over to the left edge in order to execute orders -- pressing a key to assign an order (D for defend, for example) would be faster and less tedious (avoiding the mouse swinging from right to left) ;
* When a unit is selected, it is not easy to deselect it completely or to cancel its order (the 'escape' key opens the save/load/options/exit Menu).