Look – I love my iPad and iPadOS, but with the advent of Apple silicon, it’s possible to pack more power into an iPad than the typical laptop Apple sells. I don’t think they are going to put MacOS on iPad anytime soon, but why not allow an emulator such that users can do this on their own?
And while 16GB RAM isn’t going to be optimum for a virtual PC, I run Parallels on my M1Pro…