Well, yeah gaming obviously single handedly necessitates carrying around a second computer - which is a shame given M4 MBP laptops benchmark around the same levels as mid range desktop graphics hardware.

Otherwise it's little things like the lack of containerization support, poor tooling (gnu vs ancient bsd tooling). Brew is an _okay_ package manager but a far cry from anything on Linux. Support for things like FUSE. You have to buy utilities for basic things like window management, and also Finder is the worst file explorer I've ever used. Building applications targeting MacOS is also a joke.

If you're just doing basic web development, it's about as good as Windows (not that bad), but you run into lots of oddities that you need to fix (again, much like Windows)

I would be supportive of OEM vendors if they offered hardware that was comparable.

Sadly, no Dell, Surface, Asus, etc laptop has a screen, trackpad and speakers that come close to the MBP - let alone battery life.

They've repeatedly demonstrated that they don't know how to build a laptop so I've given up hoping they will eventually test drive an MBP and shamelessly copy it.

The surface comes close but also doesn't have Linux support.

It's an interesting point in Apple's Unix core being an implementation detail. It feels like an accident that MacOS is POSIX compliant which makes it suitable for general purpose development