To clarify: I didn't mean that they would/should "help" the Hackintosh community. Quite the opposite, when looking into it they don't seem to take a significant effort to shut it down for several years now.

It probably also helped them at times, especially when they didn't offer powerful desktop machines and were at risk to have customers transition to another OS.

But with the introduction of M1 I suspect that this is the solution for that Hackintosh "grey-market".