While I agree with you in some points, let's not act like the desire or obsession (if that's what you'd like to call it) to make products thinner wasn't already there in Steve Jobs times.
In fact, Steve was one of the people who most rigorously pushed to make products thinner without compromise. If you look at the various product lines, the desire to get thinner has actually dropped off a bit after Steve's passing, for example the iPhones haven't really become noticeably thinner in a couple of years, and have even become thicker in some generations (iPhone 6S, namely). Similarly, the largest drop-off in terms of weight and thickness of the MB/MBP line happened in Jobs times or were still heavily influenced by him (namely, the 2012 Retina MBP, and of course much earlier the release of the MBP (edit: meant to write MBA) which in its first few generations was a great example of shoving off too much weight/thickness too early/fast).
That's not to say that the 2016 MBPs might not have been too much of a compromise in some regards, but let's not act like Apple's desire to make products thinner is a new idea; it's deeply rooted in Apple's philosophy.
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