I used to think this way. I remember writing an angry rant comment on a review of the Magic Trackpad, saying it was the beginning of the end for precise, professional input.
Now, of course, I exclusively use the MT with my Macs & plan on moving to iPad Pro. I've realized that what actually makes someone more efficient and productive are not the tools that seem the most complex or offer the most options. What I've realized is that the biggest impediment to productive general computing is what I'm going to coin as "context exhaustion."
iOS is an OS designed to be orders of magnitude better in this category than a PC OS. A roll-your-own, completely open Linux distro is the opposite. At the end of the day, the tool that requires the least maintenance and repetition of movements is the tool that actually offers the most real productivity advancement. To use my example, once I realized giving up precise input was completely negated by the freedom of zoom gestures, I realized the great economic benefit of the MT. I'm critically faster at navigating interfaces with gestures like double-tap-to-zoom.
The best part is, Apple isn't trying to achieve market dominance the way MS did. They're simply offering high end products in high demand - and if they don't match your vision of what productive work should look like, you'll always have other options that will be much more popular in terms of market share.
A lot of focused complaints like these, I think, are the result of Apple fans not taking advantage of new features that reduce contexts.