Oh so tired of the "left the pro market".
Yeah, I'd like the ethernet jack back (rocking it old school).
As far as I've read they re-added missing functions to FCPX step by step. I could imagine that the source code of FCP7 had been grown to a behemoth that had become increasingly difficult to maintain. Even more so, as older programmers left or retired - and the new ones were not familiar with the old sources and some "special tricks" in them, so new functions could break stable existing ones and the testing effort had grown out of proportion. Some of those problems seem to have "recently" occured with OSX itself.
I doubt that the MacBook would see an update already after the refresh earlier this year. If you're willing to go for a different form factor though and accept to have fans again in a 13" MacBook Pro (or a potential Retina Air) ...
And these are exactly the issue with the current Apple. They "courageously" move on into areas that the industry may or may not need, while leaving no options or alternative in the transition. Early FCPX is one, 3.5mm is another, and now maybe the USB-C only MBP also. Just because a product works amazingly well for a few specific scenarios, doesn't mean it will the rest of the time, especially when commonly used features are missing. It maybe justified to do so in the consumer market as needs are not necessities, but in the context of "pro", in its broadest sense, a piece of tool needs to work. There used to be a time when you bought a Mac with the "Pro" word attached to it, you could expect it to accommodate whatever workflow you had. Not anymore.
