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I’m not sure I buy into that premise. If we could buy the app once for macOS, then use it on an iPad Pro too for no extra charge, like I do with Photoshop and Lightroom, then people would likely buy into that ecosystem. It takes a lot of effort to change the ecosystem though, so Apple might have to get tough.
The iPad Pro is made to go head to toe with Macs, to a certain degree, it is time Apple forced that ecosystem on developers and customers, otherwise why even buy an iPad Pro. They could easily revert the non-Pro models back to using iOS, and change iPadOS into an iPadProOS. People who want the power of a laptop in an iPad would then need to buy into it with the idea that with power comes greater charges, and the rest of iPad users could stay with the iOS cheaper app ecosystem. iPadOS was really split off for the Pro models. The lesser powered iPads could easily operate again under iOS. Of course Apple likely won’t do that. So we probably will be stuck with highly overpriced Pro models that cannot deliver what customers want because the OS is to underpowered and poorly designed.
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