Most products hit a point where the design space has been explored and there are only a few reasonable options. Outside of the recent touchbar and keyboard missteps apple picked up on the notion that people want laptops that are thin, and light with low bezel screens and big touchpads, a battery that works for the whole day and performance sufficient for huge numbers of tabs.

They've run with that design philosophy for a long time which has made their laptops hard to replace. I've been looking for a Linux laptop with similar specs to an mbp but it simply doesn't exist.