If Apple's afraid of eating into Mac sales by putting macOS on iPad, *just* put the Hypervisor and Virtualization frameworks on iPadOS so third parties like Parallels can virtualize Windows 11 or Linux instead. Windows, at least, is much better suited for a touchscreen than macOS is. Let the developer/userbase validate the concept if you won’t — is a virtual desktop good or bad for the iPad platform?
@stroughtonsmith Also... surely allowing VMs on iPadOS is way for the few that need it to run more powerful tools and the 95% who are happy with a 'big iPhone' OS can carry on blissfully unaware and not subject to yet another rework of multi-tasking etc