I don’t know what the future of iPad should be. But turning it into a laptop isn’t persuasive to me.
If I wanted a laptop, I’d have bought a laptop. The strength of iPad is that it isn’t a laptop.
Does iPadOS let the hardware down? Yes. 💯
But that’s a problem that should be addressed with a genuine solution, not just, oh well, turn it into a Mac… which I would politely suggest is actually a pretty profound failure of imagination.