The iPad and MacBook teams have been in market competition for nearly a decade now while clearly Apple corporate strategy has been trying to nerf each line to prevent them from actually competing. It's an artificial tension that gets more pronounced as the devices get more capable in other ways and the induced limitations are more glaringly obvious.
macOS is the main reason I’m using mac, though. the whole integration with the Apple ecosystem is the important thing, the hardware itself is overpriced
