As a happy owner of a Surface Pro, I tend to agree. Being able to have both a powerful laptop and a reading and media consumption device in one is great. While the iPad is a better tablet and (certainly the M1 powered) Macbook is arguably a better laptop, I still stay with the Surface.

With Microsoft's nice recent improvements to WSL2 (GUI apps!), the development experience is mostly on par or even better than on MacOS, certainly if you workflows are mostly Linux based anyways.

I find Windows is doing an ok job bridging between the touch and pointer worlds, so it's certainly not impossible for Apple to follow along.