I agree it's disingenuous to take a fully-spec'd system to make a stronger point here, it sounds silly on the surface, but as you said, those machines are purch

I agree it's disingenuous to take a fully-spec'd system to make a stronger point here, it sounds silly on the surface, but as you said, those machines are purchased for one job and probably do that 24/7 for a few years until retired. I think it's a much worse state of affairs that a $6000 base Mac Pro from a few months ago, which was marketed to developers, cannot do this development. Arguably the Mac Studio was a better targeted machine for those developers, but even that only takes us back a year or so. A $6000 machine for development should last a while – even for professional use where more expense can be tolerated, it should still have 3+ years of support.