Ha. I refuse to be keyboard-shamed. 
The keyboard pops up, I type in it. That is about the limit of my relationship with it.
I definitely think it should be in there. I used to use my mobile for everything Discourse-related, and I like that almost everything possible on the desktop is mirrored on the mobile version. This is for sure a good thing. 
I was more thinking about how often I would need that info on my screen when editing an OP. If space was tight, collapsing the ‘OP block’ at the top to reclaim some content space would be pretty sweet.
Or something like this could work too: