Good luck with secure boot or disabling the ME on their closed firmware. It gets extra fun when internal modules or the battery get a firmware update that breaks or degrades Linux support again.

I have ported Linux to previous gen macbooks employers insisted I use and it was a mess to maintain.

Also consider your warranty void, so good luck with sanely priced repairs given only Apple can get parts or make repairs in most cases.

Those goalposts sure moved fast!

Really? That reply was as specific to your taunt as it gets.. who's the one moving goalposts here?

"You can't run anything on macs that Apple doesn't want" suddenly turns into "It's a mess to maintain", which is an entirely different thing from literally not being able to run something.