@mattgemmell Great article. A gentle correction, if I may: Apple doesn’t prohibit 3rd party OSes on M-series Macs. (Although of course they do on iPads so your point mostly still stands.)
According to the Asahi folks, supporting other OSes was an explicit goal of the M-series architecture, and Asahi uses supported mechanisms - it doesn’t do any circumvention. (1/2)

I think the fair version of this criticism is that Apple provides insufficient documentation on how its SoCs work, so the Asahi folks have to move mountains to reverse engineer drivers and whatnot.
(And I fully agree with ALL of your other criticisms in this piece!) (2/2)