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Why is Rosetta 2 used for running native containers on Apple Silicon?

My understanding was that it was used for running x86_64 containers within a arm64 linux VM, because it could provide hardware accelerated emulation for the linux binaries.

Your parent explicitly said amd64 which is the same thing as x86_64. Perhaps you misread amd64 and thought it was saying arm64?

I have not noticed apple caring much about pro users ever before. Aperture? Final Cut?

I mean, if they could simply kick out all studios that used final cut by making it incompatible, why care now?

Money

Who exactly is profiting, and how?

Presumably, you take the employees who were supporting Rosetta 2 and Intel macs, and you either move them to some other team or fire them, and now you've reduced your payroll expenses somewhat, which leads to a relative profit.