The hardware is nice and definitely better than the alternatives, but the real difference is the software. The acceleration, the low latency and the super smooth animations for the gestures are what really set the mbp apart and make the gestures so natural to use.

Having used Gnome 3 with Wayland and libinput (the best Linux trackpad experience at the moment) until last year, I can say that while the latency and acceleration curve are definitely not there, at least the animations are better implemented than those of Windows 10