The $53.000 Intel Mac Pro won't be usable for developing VisionOS apps

I think it's a much worse state of affairs that a $6000 base Mac Pro from a few months ago, which was marketed to developers, cannot do this development. Arguably the Mac Studio was a better targeted machine for those developers, but even that only takes us back a year or so. A $6000 machine for development should last a while – even for professional use where more expense can be tolerated, it should still have 3+ years of support.

The whole point is to distill the problem to it's essense and make it impossible to ignore.

Obviously there are various reasonable sounding reasons how such a state of affairs comes to be. The point was that regardless, at the end of the day, there is an absurdity here, and it is not "I assumed my 50k Apple computer would be usable for Apple development." There is no hard tecnical limit to excuse it. It's completely fair to call it out.

Would be a good machine for data scientists as well, but those usually prefer cloud instances that reside near the data rather than bringing the data to the workstation.

There is no actual technical limit here, only a typically inconsiderate policy one.

Any architecture may produce any collection of bits for any other, and even run them and test them. Every m1 user sees this every day when they continue to run intel apps.