Given the success of the last CPU arch transition, there's honestly no reason why the transitional state couldn't be semi-permanent with powerful desktops sport

Given the success of the last CPU arch transition, there's honestly no reason why the transitional state couldn't be semi-permanent with powerful desktops sporting top Intel chips and ultra-light laptops running souped-up A-series chips from Apple. All it takes is for developers to be producing multi-architecture binaries, something macOS is already good at and something developers were doing for years not that long ago. Remember the WWDC 2020 keynote when they said: "Almost all of your Mac apps will compile for the A14 chip with zero code changes!"