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Apple will never do this as it would kill the MacBook Air market. Same reason why they'll never add a touch screen to a MacBook. iPadOS is their heavily locked-down anticompetitive monopoly desktop OS, a la iOS. Every iteration of macOS in the last decade has destroyed api's and features which non-apple apps and services rely on. Apple are more likely to get rid of MacBooks and macOS in favour of iPadOS, once it does enough for non-superuser "pros" to use it full time.
This is why their monopoly should be broken, they should be forced to open up their firmware/hardware for alternative OS's, and open up their OS api's so alternatives can implement real/legitimate feature parity with iCloud etc, and all of Apple's own services.
What monopoly does Apple have?
They monopolize Apple products I guess.
App Store monopoly is actually an issue, which is slowly improving.