If after 3 or 4yrs they did this then yeah it sucks but expected. They are still to this day selling intel macs, some with eye watering prices. It’s not right to do it now. They could code these to make them work on intel hardware, neural engine or not, they just don’t want to.Are you sure it’s some kind of conspiracy, or is it just the cost of progress? I get it: nobody wants to spend thousands on a computer and lose it before you would a car that might last for decades. But if we cling to old computers for any longer than some arbitrary time, we’d still be using PowerPC and mobile phones the size of bricks.