I suspect a lot of professionals that need decent compute find desktop PCs to sit in something of a no-man’s-land these days.

Personally I find my MacBook Pro plenty powerful for most day to day activities, including testing out ideas. The kicker is that when I need real compute, a desktop that’s maybe 3-5x faster pales in comparison to jumping onto a hosted GPU cluster. It also ends up cheaper because I’m not paying for a chunky GPU that’s sitting idle on my desk half the time.

From limited conversation with people in other industries, their experience is similar.