A lot of the old Macbook Pro with a Touch Bar have issues. It flickers or blinks. But I'd still consider those because there are solutions to the flickering.
For example you can go to Settings -> Keyboard and customize the Control Strip. Then you remove the items one by one. I detailed how to do it in this article: https://blog.clemstation.com/best-3-solutions-to-fix-macbook-pro-touch-bar-flickering-issues/
Of course the new Macbook won't have this issue moving forward.