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What about this client is M1 specific?

Maestral provides a universal binary on macOS, so it runs natively on arm64. The official Dropbox client is x64-only, so it needs to run in an emulation layer (Rosetta) on a M1. For something low-level as a file syncing service, that's very unfortunate. There are loads of request on the Dropbox forum to support arm64, but no sight of it being added anytime soon.

That either reads “we don’t have the resources to support our second largest OS platform” or there are too little users still using the native desktop client.

Mind you, this is a company that went out of their way to port a Linux client in 2011.

To see them hesitate with m1 is shocking

I bet M1 users aren't nowhere near "the second largest OS platform". Unless you're bundling x86 macOS users together. Just pointing out that it's not as critical (yet) as it might appear.

I suspect even combined, macOS is fourth after Windows, Android and iOS.

Regardless, they’re ignoring a massive demographic.

Besides gaming, when consumer software stops support for macOS, it doesn’t look good.

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