> I'm in the camp of people who would have possibly shifted my entire working setup to that thing if they'd made just a few less dumb choices

That describes me too. I even did for a while. But it just made the incomprehensible lack of any software ambition more painful.

The software is the only reason the Vision isn't worth the price. A real Pro OS, paired with an Studio M5-Ultra, or with its own M5-Ultra, would be an amazing work environment.

(The only hardware they would need to upgrade for the latter, i.e. its own Ultra, would be making live-battery swapping convenient. Which they should have already done.)