I'm on the other side of that fence. I would love a touchscreen mac and I don't see a reason why the ipad pro can't be that. I just got an old Surface Book to mess with and it kind of makes a lot of sense to me except for the whole Windows thing. And it's heavy. But the big tablet screen is nice and it's a full OS.
I like my current iPad Pro (2018) but it's going to get left behind soon and now that they're putting M2s in iPads, why can't they run the MacOS?
I doesn't matter because Apple isn't doing MacOS on iPads. Never ever.
Well, if they ever do then pricing will be, at the very least, starting at $2000 for the smallest base configuration model.
Why? Because an iPad running MacOS would instantly cannibalize most MacBook Air, iPad, iPad Air, and iPad Pro sales.
Only MacBooks Pro and desktop Macs could maybe survive a "do-it-all" iPad/MacBook combo device.
It's the same reason why Apple won't put health sensors in AirPods, make Watch independent from iPhone, Apple Pencil work on Macs, touch displays on Macs, let iPads make cell phone calls without owning an iPhone, etc., etc.
All technically possible. But
"do-it-all" devices don't fit into Apple's business model.
Also, absolutely no way Apple puts r&d into making iPad versions of Logic and Final Cut only to let you run the subscription-free, perpetual license versions a few years later.
Not happening.