The Inside Story of Why Apple Brought a Touch Display to the Mac

>Joswiak, who holds Schiller’s old title of SVP of worldwide marketing, concedes that touch was overdue, at least for users with sophisticated needs. Its pro customers—engineers, scientists, software developers, and media creators—were impatient with Apple for its failure to let them interact directly with the screen.

I haven't ever seen a developer, engineer or scientist voice that need. Not sure about media creators since there aren't many in my bubble, but it's kind of a weird claim. Why would people interacting mostly with text need touch? Half of them barely even use the mouse/touchpad.