Like I said in my comment, it isn't for everyone - it's a tradeoff. We sign up for different pathways.

I made a collage about my frustrations with iPad a couple years ago ( https://imgur.com/a/CQwApt8 from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22627889 , 2020) and since then:

- One of the accessories I showed in there, gnarbox , a second computer for ipad photo workflows, went out of business and supposedly the app required to make it's main features work is no longer available: https://petapixel.com/2021/12/29/gnarbox-may-be-dead-so-buye...

- Ish still requires a hack to run in the background: https://github.com/ish-app/ish/wiki/Running-in-background (maybe things are changing now with today's announcements?)

- UTM has a number of ios-specific limitations: https://github.com/utmapp/UTM/wiki/Known%20Issues#ios-specif...