To be fair, the only serious competition for home users has laptops that (now) start at $1200, plus tax, applecare, and dongles (oh, you wanted a USB-A connection like basically every device in the world uses? Jony is about to courage your wallet. You want to be able to connect it to the odd tv via HDMI, what everything in the world uses? More courage!)... so basically $1500 to walk out the store. I'm aware you can get an old air with 5 year old guts for $1k, but that will prolly not be sold for much longer.

My parents do not need $1.5k of laptop to browse the internet, email, and exchange photos of grandkids. Particularly in a world when a decent laptop doing the above should cost $750 or less out the store.