OK I'll add nuance: it's terrible news for this developer (and anyone much like him) that Apple is not facing enough commercial pressure to ever produce another laptop that will serve his needs as well as his current MB Pro does. This makes him sad.

I wanted to upvote your original post sooner, but it was previously flagged.

I am feeling some serious dissonance here as well.

I have been a MBP fan for quite some time now. I have watched the recent Apple conferences with distaste as I see the target audience for MBP shift away from me. I don't want to find an alternative, and I sincerely hoped the market would not take well to the newest iteration. Looks like that's not going to be the case.

That original post was a tad obtuse! Anyway yes this is the point: OS X (or macOS if I must) isn't perfect, but I have found it the best compromise for my purposes. I very rarely have to futz with it, it's unixy enough, and it has scads of truly excellent 3rd party software available. But the hardware limitations might just force me to find an alternative. The latest MB Pros tanking would have offered some hope.