I can't think of a single reason to pay $1800 for an ARM-based device. If I'm going to spend so much money on it it's better be able to run Windows/Linux and all my x86 architecture apps.
That is hinted in the article, i.e. the specs are too beefed up just to run Chrome OS (half a terabyte of storage) and a full dev environment awaits via virtualization.
Maybe it will be chrome OS + k8s with some glue for trivial to run local containers vs cloud for linux/windows.