here seems that all are ready to put a stone on Intel Mac... Uhm just two or three think:
1) when apple move from powerpc to intel, do you know how many years need? in 1996 i started to work in 3d on a Intel box with the father of Osx, NextStep, but before end of 2003 no one can use professionally Osx on heavy work, most of people told that Os was immersed in the molasses so was slow and no one software really work in the right way, all emulated and slow, no one software house decide to rewrite from ground, but simply recompile.
2) apple at today keep compatiblity with original nvidia cards of old mac on Catalina, also with computer from 6-8 years ago, why do you think that immediately they decide to cut off all computer from newer os?
most of people that bought Today mac pro with the price of two lugs start immediately a causes against them...
Apple is smart, keep compatibility for a long time, they know their chicken.
3) why do you think that software house immediately will be able to convert correctly professional software and work on a completely different architecture?
for someone who not remember in the last months Avid finally realease a Catalina compatible version, them took something like near to twenty years to produce a full 64bit editing software... ( i use 64bit os from 2001, i was on ones of teams of betatester for many 3d software 64bit for Ms, Newtek and Maxon), but until when them are forced with Catalina, they never rewrite all code for 64bit, avid not started on Catalina and them advise their user to not update...
different architecture mean that you cannot simply change a compiler and all work fine, you must rewrite a lot's of code to work fine on newer kind of architecture, learn how to, be cause if apple produce the nwer cpu, you cannot find other infos if apple not give you, mean that people must change a lot's of code, newer bugs, newer problems, different structure to manage, tons of library to rewrite...
all things that need times.
I think that before we have a real reborn of Mac like new os, new machine and software really optimized need seems 10 ten years, be cause is not like change a tool in a slot, is rewrite all completely.
If you do a word processor it's easy, but if you rebuild a 3d software a postprocessing software mean that to study a lots and deep to work fine.
And not only, how many of you use all software naked? i bought tons of plugin for 2d, 3d, audio, and again i do a change ONLY when all work fine.
I was born like 3d artist on computer in 1991 that worked on 6 mb of ram, 120mb hdd and a cpu of 25mhz, i earn money with it, my amiga 4000 allow me to live very well with 2d and 3d animation for years, i saw different computer generation, since 34 different os, few of them are win and MacOs, i used many unix Os, i used Silicon Graphics, and other custom tools, everytime i ear this kind of announce i remember that the real operative transition is more longer that announced, and also them realese the computer, who work neeeeeed more more time before to switch.
take care guys, we can use hackintosh for a longer period.