Ditched Mac completely and went back to Windows after they removed magsafe, added that dumb touch bar, and introduced dongle-gate. I lost faith in their ability to innovate and understand their users.
It's a laptop, it's not a fusion reactor. It's mature technology, as far as humans are concerned.
I wont be buying a new Mac.
It works, technically. But it lacks all kinds of integration with core Windows, to the point where you can't run VS.Code against Python files in the WSL world.
It's easier to run a VM and sync files over SSH, sadly.
If this one would get run over by a truck I'd probably buy a Thinkpad.
Consider the possibility that you represent an extremely tiny segment of users.
Very little of the promotional material from Apple features engineering being done on the MacBook/iMac Pro - it's almost all content creation.
Engineers are far from being the main target audience for these products.
And that's why I was careful to say exactly that by qualifying that they are not. The bigger point is that post-Jobs Apple doesn't seem to target engineers or even "content creators" that strongly anymore.
There are always going to be the type of people who just want the brand identification that Apple serves up, and will happily use a MacBook Pro to access Facebook or YouTube and little else. That seems a really bad way to appeal to the pro user market, even if it's smaller.
The "Pro" branding implies battery, horsepower and ergonomics. Something Apple consistently failed to deliver ever since they peaked with the MacBook Pro 2015.