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Not having a touchscreen is a big plus point these days. It usually means you get to use much more precise input devices instead!

Touchscreen devices with touch-centric operating systems/UI systems will never replace 'proper computers' for 'serious software' as everything has to be so completely dumbed-down for touch, simply because you can't build a complex and feature-rich UI for such a limited input device.

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I don't think this will always be the case. Applications like Bitwig Studio have both traditional and touch interfaces. It's only a change in GUI. I can see most applications in the future having "responsive" gui layouts like how web designers deal with screen sizes, but for touch interfaces.

I guess this reasoning makes a sense in apple ecosystem. But why not both options in single device?

My 7 years old dell can replace desktop workstation and tablet. Its replacement better have the same features.

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