Why is it all "gamer" hardware that looks like a Michael Bay movie? Maybe there's a carve out for things that look like they belong in a cubicle farm. Cheap plastic, laptops with bad battery life and worse cooling, inferior trackpads, and screens that don't quite hit the mark no matter where you look.
I'm willing to accept that Apple buys the supply chain and makes it harder, fine - but why is there not one single company that makes something premium that I want to have in my office? I'll pay a premium for it, cost literally does not matter - just give me something nice. I could get a good looking desktop from System76, but every other monitor makes me cringe now.
If the market is this much in disarray, I have no idea how they compete against the M1's internals. Ceding the premium market to Apple is the most depressing thing ever.
And none of this is even touching on comparing macOS relative polish to Linux and its various DEs. I think that macOS is tricky with changes, sure - but if you know how the OS works, there's really very little surprise with it.
tl;dr: would the rest of this industry please wake up and actually compete?