I'm also curious how much it is because Apple is primarily a hardware company, and over-leveraged in laptops vs. desktops in the modern era. Apple as an OS vend

I'm also curious how much it is because Apple is primarily a hardware company, and over-leveraged in laptops vs. desktops in the modern era. Apple as an OS vendor probably wants to be a good OS for everyone. Apple as a hardware vendor is in a world where most non-console gamers are desktop-based and getting them onto an iMac or a Mac Mini is a harder sell. There's a lot of odd history that goes into the Windows hegemony of the gaming industry, I'm sure, but that's lead to an industry that's built on desktops for the most part for non-console gaming. Even if Apple magically had even Linux-level support for games, I'm not sure how much that would ever raise their prospects in business or hardware sales, so it's a harder sell internally. Taking the Wine/Proton emulation path that Linux has gone down also means that Apple would now be beholden to Microsoft not being screwy with them when it comes to how DirectX or the like gets developed in the future. I'm sure there's some calculation that if they started trying to be cross-compatible with something as complex as Windows' graphics APIs, it opens them up to MS intentionally breaking compatibility in the future just to ruin them. I know Linux devs have enough trouble with that already and MS almost definitely doesn't care about them.