The new Mac Pro is a terrible example of one move in an upgradable direction, which has moved to a ludicrous price point that received many laughs while we watc

The new Mac Pro is a terrible example of one move in an upgradable direction, which has moved to a ludicrous price point that received many laughs while we watched the keynote in one of the senior dev rooms at a top 5 Canadian bank that I work for. What about Apple removing the non-touchbar model of the MacBook Pro - is that a direction anyone asked for? The words 'touch bar' are the equivalent of 'Voldemort' in the IT world, with 'butterfly keyboard' maybe second. Or, let's take the Mac Mini - which, when I was 15 years old, was inexpensive enough that I was able to save up myself and purchase it, new, from an Apple Store - which has now jumped up several hundred dollars in it's basic configuration. That 15-year-old kid, who justified saving up $500 over a whole summer just to get an Apple computer, couldn't have even afforded it now. What I'm seeing is hardware I don't want - that none of my friends in either the creative professional media industry (audio / film) want - and all of the devs I've seen complain avidly about the first chance they get. The new Mac Pro only shows me a trend towards more impractically expensive, locked-down hardware, designed basically to increase Apple's year-over-year instead of provide year-over-year excellence in their products. I used to love Apple, for years and years. I'm forced to use a 2017 15" MBP at the office and I can't stand it. It's disappointing. I still keep an iMac G4 from all those years back in use almost every day as I've filled it with every season of the Simpsons, Futurama, Seinfeld, etc, and I just love the design...it's a sad reminder of how the mighty fall.