I think the technical term is "editorialized". The title should be, "VisionPro will require Apple Silicon", which is far less interesting.

Different archtiecture is utterly irrelevant. No one is developing watch apps on a watch, all development is cross develooment, even if the architectures are similar.

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.

Four year old devices running different cpu architectures end up creating a pretty sizable chunk of all software though.

> it was aimed at creatives

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.