iPad Air 2 Keyboard Issues

I use my Air 2 daily and have enjoyed it tremendously for the past 2 years, favoring it over my newish Windows 10 Lenovo flip laptop. Since the IOS 12 update my unit has become a real source of frustrations for me. It is producing lots of errors while I type and seems unforgiving that my fingers do not always hit the center of each key. Quite often the letter besides what key I input come up instead. Is it my iPad or the associated software? I always use my unit with the screen locked in position. Like most users, I may drag my fingers a bit while typing but have never had issues like this in the past. My little old redundant ipad mini first generation is still in use today. While it can no longer be updated it certainly does not produce typing errors like this Air 2 and the keyboard is much smaller to boot.

Is there a solution to this or am I going to have to go to my Windows 10 laptop to stay sane?