Given Apple’s current locked-down trajectory with the Mac, the Mac Pro was gonna die eventually, and it’s for the best that it does given it was reduced to little more than a massively overpriced Mac Studio grafted onto a useless PCIe backplane; a $12k grift, basically.
PCs at least are still modular and expandable; for now.
I thought there were already some M-series iPads that gave some actual workstation laptops a run for their money though.
iPads have always had the problem of having waaaaay way more compute power than they were ever capable of utilizing.
Yep. The iPad Pro lineup is M-series.