The problem with the iPad as as many have pointed out is that the software hampers what it can do unless you’re willing to contort yourself into a very specific workflow. For most casual users those limitations aren’t an issue and the advantages of the form factor outweigh the deficits. But when you charge MBPro money for a device the trade-offs sting. As @jsnell says, the best solution would be to just let us virtualize macOS on an iPad Pro when using it in certain modes https://sixcolors.com/post/2024/05/the-ipad-pro-is-no-longer-the-future-so-whats-next/
The iPad Pro is no longer the future, so what’s next?

iPad Pro and keyboard, circa its October 2018 announcement. It’s hard to believe that it was more than five and a half years ago that I flew home from a New York Apple event, my mind spinning…

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@film_girl @jsnell I just did two days of work, using Zoom, Teams, Outlook, Word, Adobe PDF and OneDrive.

Not on an iPad,mind - on an Amazon Fire Max 11 with keyboard, that cost half of an entry level iPad with keyboard.

Apple needs to get their tablet OS into the game or one of these days someone is going to disrupt the iPad.