Web developer and Studio Lead at Deloitte Digital in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Great article, especially from my point of view of being a Surface Pro 4 user since 2014, I can relate as well.
But I'm not like you. For my day job we got issued powerful Macbooks with i9 CPUs and 32GB or RAM and there are no complaints there, perhaps except for that these machines are almost completely locked down and I don't dare doing anything personal on it.
So I only use the Surface for my light-weight after-hours dabbling and messing around with shell scripts and JavaScript code. The only times I really see it struggle is when I'm running Beaker Browser and Patchwork and Syncthing at the same time. But I learned to be patient and just keep one thing open at a time. And I don't do Desktop Apps. I wished I could learn how to program that. Getting some inspiration from the people over dabbling with Gemini and Go and Rust, there's even a really cool client programmed in C.
My question though: would Microsoft allow you to build Windows 10 for x86–64 in their fancy Azure Cloud? Perhaps that's what they are aiming for? Would that be an option?