This will be the bridge iPad. It will keep pencil 1 support for education, because schools have a stack of Apple pencils and Logitech pencils already. The iPad pencil 2 digitizer is not compatible with pencil 1. When iPad 11 comes out it will be pencil 2, and this 10th gen iPad will move down in price to approx. $329 iPad slot and be kept available for years for education. This is the most logical reason why Apple has done this. It is an iPad for the transition that they can keep around for years for education suckers.