Honestly, Apple is asking for this kind of scrutiny when they apply the 'pro' moniker to any and every product. My iPad Pro is incredible and I love using it, but there is still so much friction involved in doing certain things that are way simpler on my desktop machines.
I tend to agree. I've got an iPad Pro, but my MacBook Pro is still my default for activities which are often possible, but awkward on the iPad.
What Apple seems to have done though is avoid an uncontained failure. I could have seen other tech leadership teams going all in on the iPad Pro, and removing/deprecating other lines completely at this point.
They've started incremental investment in the iPad after years of low/no investment. This seems like a better strategy to realise the full capabilities of the product while retaining what works. This is too slow for some people, but I don't know of another option, especially when an ARM transition on laptops is a consideration.
