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Look, I don't know if you're being willfully obtuse or not...
Apple sold macs. They sold them with system software and design it to be compatible with published standards. They support their device and software to be compatible with other people's things. Like a hard drive, or a ram dimm. Or running Windows on Apple hardware with Bootcamp. So Apple sells hardware and software, but makes it compatible and supports that compatibility, with other things.
Here, I'll make it simpler. My Mac has a USB port. I can plug a keyboard in, and MacOS will say 'hey, you just attached a keyboard, lets configure it, push the key next to shift'. Because Apple is selling a device that is compatible with third party devices.
What compatibility issues are you having with hard drives or RAM on your Mac?
Apple sells Macs with no guarantee of compatibility with products produced by anyone else. It's up to 3rd party developers to make their products compatible with macOS. If you have ever seen Apple guarantee compatibility with all 3rd party products, please post a link because I've never seen one.
Bootcamp allow users to run software that were not made to run on macOS.
Yes, Macs have USB ports, but not all USB devices work with macOS because the developers never wrote macOS drivers.
If you have have USB capture device that you want to sell to Mac users, do you write the drivers and include it with the device or hope that Apple will develop the drivers for you?
If everything were compatible, there would never be any need to have "compatibility lists".
Hey!! Look what I found!! Apple provided a compatibility list!!
Source:https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208544
RDNA2 was a new architecture. No one should have expected macOS compatibility because no Macs are or has ever been shipped with an RDNA2 GPU.
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