Yes, yes, yes, for some people it's good enough as their primary device but for the vast majority it isn't. And that's by design. Apple's design.
When the M1 iPad Pro was announced I genuinely thought the upcoming iPadOS that year would finally be feature rich and they'd be power apps like Final Cut etc available to take advantage of the ridiculous power of the M1.
How wrong and disappointed was I/we all? Same old tired useless crap, year after year.
All that wasted potential. It's so frustrating.
I think you have it exactly backwards.
For the vast majority of people, an iPad *is* their main computer.
The vast majority of people are not using Final Cut, or logic, or any of those types of applications.
The vast majority don’t even know what any of that is.
Even the majority of Mac users are not using Final Cut.
No idea where this idea that all computer users are video editors or audio engineers come from, but it’s not, and it’s never been, anywhere close to the truth.
People who use Final Cut and logic are a niche. A very small niche.
Most computer users are buying a computer, or in this case, an iPad, to do very basic things.
Browse the web, check email, pay taxes, watch movies, play the occasional game, edit photos that they capture on their iPhones, draw, and maybe, if they’re very ambitious, throw something together in iMovie.
Explain to me why any of that stuff can’t be done just as productively on an iPad as a Mac?
So when you say “for some people it's good enough as their primary device but for the vast majority it isn't”, I think you have it backwards.
It’s the small minority of people who can’t use an iPad as their main device.
And for those people, yes, I think there are major improvements Apple can make to iPadOS.
But the facts are the facts, and the facts are that the majority of people can and have made iPads their main device.
Which is exactly why Apple sells more iPads than Macs every year.
